Lapsed Dec 12, 2025 on the fee record · High confidence
20-year base term ends May 20, 2035
Second maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.
Held by Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
Filed Mar 9, 2017 as application 15/455,050 · Granted Dec 12, 2017
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
Lapsed Dec 12, 2025
2015
2035
Clock starts
May 20, 2015
May 20, 2015
No longer in force
Dec 12, 2025
Dec 12, 2025
Granted
Dec 12, 2017
Dec 12, 2017
Term would have run to
May 20, 2035
May 20, 2035
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
None
Term adjustment
No prosecution delay on this record.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
1 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.
3
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 May 20, 2035: its 20-year base term, with no adjustment for prosecution delay. 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 May 20, 2015, when application 14/716,888, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Mar 9, 2017) | May 20, 2035 | 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 | None on record | no cap applied | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 1 of 3 maintenance fees paid | lapsed Dec 12, 2025 | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Dec 12, 2025 | High confidence |
This family
| US 9,648,698 | In force Sep 2035 | Sep 2035 |
| Application PCT/US2016/030421 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 9,842,407 | this patent Dec 2025 | Dec 2025 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
Sources
Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO
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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
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