Lapsed Jul 11, 2021 on the fee record · High confidence
20-year base term ends Feb 19, 2028
First maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.
Held by Lyft, Inc.
Filed Dec 10, 2015 as application 14/964,983 · Granted Jul 11, 2017
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
Lapsed Jul 11, 2021
2008
2028
Clock starts
Feb 19, 2008
Feb 19, 2008
No longer in force
Jul 11, 2021
Jul 11, 2021
Granted
Jul 11, 2017
Jul 11, 2017
Term would have run to
Feb 19, 2028
Feb 19, 2028
base term
after the term ends
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
None
Term adjustment
No prosecution delay on this record.
No effect
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 8,543,721, US 8,904,029, US 9,241,023, to Feb 19, 2028. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.
0 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.
7
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 Feb 19, 2028: its 20-year base term, with no adjustment for prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer is resolved from the filed document, and it ends no earlier than this term, so it shortens nothing. 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 Feb 19, 2008, when application 12/033,082, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Dec 10, 2015) | Feb 19, 2028 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 8,543,721, US 8,904,029, US 9,241,023) | resolves to Feb 19, 2028, no earlier than this term, so no change | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 0 of 2 maintenance fees paid | lapsed Jul 11, 2021 | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Jul 11, 2021 | High confidence |
This family
| US 8,543,721 | Lapsed on the fee record Sep 2025 | Sep 2025 |
| US 8,904,029 | In force Feb 2028 | Feb 2028 |
| US 9,241,023 | Lapsed on the fee record Jan 2024 | Jan 2024 |
| US 9,705,983 | this patent Jul 2021 | Jul 2021 |
| US 10,021,178 | Lapsed on the fee record Jul 2022 | Jul 2022 |
| US 10,708,351 | In force May 2028 | May 2028 |
| Application 16/918,435 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 29, 2015 Reel 37395, frame 289 | AT&T Knowledge Ventures, L.P. | AT&T Intellectual Property I, LP | Change of Name |
| Dec 29, 2015 Reel 37373, frame 602 | White, Scott; Cansler, James L.; Schmehl, Ian C. | AT&T Knowledge Ventures, L.P. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jul 16, 2018 Reel 46556, frame 96 | AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P. | Prosper Technology, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jan 18, 2019 Reel 48097, frame 402 | Prosper Technology, LLC | Lyft, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Feb 22, 2019 Reel 49910, frame 561 | White, Scott; Cansler, James L.; Schmehl, Ian C. | AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P. | Corrective Assignment to Correct the Receiving Party's Address Previously Recorded at Reel: 037373 Frame: 0602. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Assignment. |
Sources
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Terminal disclaimer
A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 8,543,721, US 8,904,029, US 9,241,023, ends no earlier than this term, so it caps nothing.
Citations
2
later US patents cite this one
That is below the median of utility patents granted in 2017 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
Every date shows its work: the base term, any term adjustment or extension, any disclaimer cap, and the maintenance fee record, each with a confidence tier. How this record was built
Computed patent terms end on the dates shown. Related patents and pending applications may cover overlapping subject matter.