Also listed on The Eye Tribe APS, an earlier holder on the record. The recorded assignments below show how it moved.
Term ends Mar 22, 2034 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Feb 14, 2034
Held by Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
Filed Feb 14, 2014 as application 14/180,974 · Granted Jul 4, 2017
Base term plus 36 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2014
2034
Clock starts
Feb 14, 2014
Feb 14, 2014
Term ends
Mar 22, 2034
Mar 22, 2034
Granted
Jul 4, 2017
Jul 4, 2017
base term
patent term adjustment
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
36
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
2 of 3
Maintenance fees paid
Three maintenance fees fall due, at 3.5, 7.5 and 11.5 years from grant. This counts the ones the record shows paid.
2
Family applications on record here
Applications sharing this one's continuity chain whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.
This patent's term runs 36 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 2 of 3 maintenance fees are paid so far. Confidence: High. from the record
How we calculated this date
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| Step | Input | Date after this step | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Base term, 20 years from filing | Clock starts Feb 14, 2014, when this application, 14/180,974, was filed | Feb 14, 2034 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +36 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Mar 22, 2034 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | None on record | no cap applied | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 2 of 3 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Mar 22, 2034 | High confidence |
This family
| US 9,693,684 | this patent Mar 2034 | Mar 2034 |
| US 9,791,927 | In force Feb 2034 | Feb 2034 |
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 8, 2014 Reel 32846, frame 689 | San Agustin Lopez, Javier; Hansen, John Paulin; Sztuk, Sebastian; Tall, Martin Henrik | The Eye Tribe APS | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Feb 19, 2017 Reel 41291, frame 471 | The Eye Tribe APS | Facebook, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Mar 23, 2017 Reel 42084, frame 246 | Lopez, Javier San Agustin; Hansen, John Paulin; Sztuk, Sebastian; Tall, Martin Henrik | The Eye Tribe APS | Corrective Assignment to Correct the Execution Date Previously Recorded at Reel: 032846 Frame: 0689. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Assignment. |
| Nov 30, 2018 Reel 47687, frame 942 | Facebook, Inc. | Facebook Technologies, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jun 8, 2022 Reel 60315, frame 224 | Facebook Technologies, LLC | Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC | Change of Name |
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What's changing
Mar 2034
Term ends Mar 22, 2034. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 36 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
86
later US patents cite this one
That is top 5% of utility patents granted in 2017 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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