Lapsed May 30, 2025 on the fee record · High confidence
20-year base term ends Mar 28, 2028
Second maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.
Held by Meta Platforms, Inc.
Filed Jan 20, 2014 as application 14/158,865 · Granted May 30, 2017
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 23 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
Lapsed May 30, 2025
2008
2028
Clock starts
Mar 28, 2008
Mar 28, 2008
No longer in force
May 30, 2025
May 30, 2025
Granted
May 30, 2017
May 30, 2017
Term would have run to
Mar 28, 2028
Mar 28, 2028
base term
after the term ends
fee events
Updated Nov 14, 2026 · includes USPTO assignment & status data published Nov 14, 2026 and grant & fee data published Nov 10, 2026 (weekly) · how we know
23
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
Capped
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 8,643,660.
1 of 2
Maintenance fees paid
Two maintenance fees can end this term early, the ones due 3.5 and 7.5 years from grant; the third one's grace period runs past the term end. This counts the ones the record shows paid.
9
Family applications on record here
Applications sharing this one's continuity chain whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.
Its term would have run to Mar 28, 2028: its 20-year base term plus 23 days of term adjustment for prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. Confidence: High. from the record
How we calculated this date
One row per rule, each showing its own input and what it did to the date. A step we could not verify says so instead of resolving itself.
| Step | Input | Date after this step | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Base term, 20 years from filing | Clock starts Mar 28, 2008, when application 12/057,601, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jan 20, 2014) | Mar 28, 2028 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +23 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Apr 20, 2028 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 8,643,660) | capped to Mar 28, 2028 | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 1 of 2 maintenance fees paid | lapsed May 30, 2025 | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | May 30, 2025 | High confidence |
This family
| US 9,035,959 | In force Dec 2033 | Dec 2033 |
| Application PCT/US2009/038627 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 9,035,960 | In force Mar 2028 | Mar 2028 |
| US 8,643,660 | In force Mar 2028 | Mar 2028 |
| US 9,035,962 | In force Sep 2028 | Sep 2028 |
| US 9,665,488 | this patent May 2025 | May 2025 |
| US 10,078,590 | Lapsed on the fee record Sep 2026 | Sep 2026 |
| US 10,204,051 | In force no later than Mar 2028 | no later than Mar 2028 |
8 of 9 applications in this family shown, earliest filings first. The applications whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.
Assignments
Assignment documents as recorded at the USPTO, oldest first, with the reel and frame each was recorded at. A recorded assignment is a filed document, not a statement of current ownership, and the absence of a later one is not evidence that the last one still stands.
| Recorded | Assignor | Assignee | Conveyance |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 2022 Reel 60199, frame 363 | Facebook, Inc. | Meta Platforms, Inc. | Change of Name |
| May 26, 2022 Reel 60200, frame 894 | Intel Corporation | Facebook, Inc. | Patent Sale Agreement |
| Nov 9, 2022 Reel 62556, frame 479 | Intel Corporation | Facebook, Inc. | Patent Sale Agreement |
Sources
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Note
The 23 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Disclaimer cap
This term is capped by a terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 8,643,660.
Citations
1
later US patent cites this one
That is below the median of utility patents granted in 2017 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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