When these terms end
Held patents by the year their term ends
notable patents
fee due within 90 days
all others
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
Notable: the highest-ranked patents in this portfolio by citations and family size. Fee due within 90 days: a maintenance fee is due within 90 days of when this page was computed and not yet paid.
Notable patents
Ranked by citations and family size, against patents of the same kind granted the same year. How we rank
Notable
Ends Sep 2032 · Medium confidence
Also notable
Ends Apr 2027 · High confidence
Also notable
Ends Nov 2037 · High confidence
Thermostat Graphical User Interface
US 10,241,527
Cited by 318 later US patents, top 1% of utility patents granted in 2019 in our data. Protection runs to 2032.
Wearable Display Device
US D680,152
Cited by 258 later US patents, top 1% of design patents granted in 2013 in our data. Protection runs to 2027.
Display Device
US D980,211
Cited by 60 later US patents, top 1% of design patents granted in 2023 in our data. Protection runs to 2037. A terminal disclaimer caps this term to an earlier patent's.
Formerly held, still cited
Notable
Ends Jul 2028 · Medium confidence
Cited by 612 later US patents, top 1% of utility patents granted in 2010 in our data, and renewed at 3 of 3 maintenance windows. Protection runs to 2028.
now held by Kyocera Corporation
Fee deadlines
Maintenance fees fall due 3.5, 7.5 and 11.5 years after grant. A missed fee ends a patent at the end of the six month grace period that follows, not on the due date.
- 286 fees due Nov 14 to 30, 2026 · next Nov 14
- 544 fees due Dec 2 to 30, 2026 · next Dec 2
- 509 fees due Jan 2 to 30, 2027 · next Jan 2
- 558 fees due Feb 1 to 28, 2027 · next Feb 1
- 549 fees due Mar 1 to 29, 2027 · next Mar 1
- 597 fees due Apr 1 to 30, 2027 · next Apr 1
- 533 fees due May 3 to 28, 2027 · next May 3
- 551 fees due Jun 1 to 30, 2027 · next Jun 1
- 491 fees due Jul 2 to 30, 2027 · next Jul 2
- 514 fees due Aug 2 to 27, 2027 · next Aug 2
- 581 fees due Sep 1 to 30, 2027 · next Sep 1
- 545 fees due Oct 2 to 30, 2027 · next Oct 2
- 213 fees due Nov 3 to 12, 2027 · next Nov 3
Recent changes
- Nov 12Assignment recorded on 1 record: Weng, Li-Sheng and 9 others to Google LLC Recorded Nov 12, 2026, executed Feb 6, 2026. Conveyance as recorded: Assignment of Assignor's Interest. A recorded assignment is a filed document, not a statement of current ownership. Reel 76736, frame 717.
- Nov 11Assignment recorded on 1 record: Chandwaney, Ashok Lalchand to Google LLC Recorded Nov 11, 2026, executed Mar 26, 2024. Conveyance as recorded: Assignment of Assignor's Interest. A recorded assignment is a filed document, not a statement of current ownership. Reel 76720, frame 576.
- 474 of the patents on this record were granted since Aug 16, 2026
- 547 terms have ended since Aug 16, 2026
What they patent
The 5 largest of its 16,606 families, grouped by real patent family and labeled by the earliest filing in each. No technology classification is inferred from titles.
| User Friendly Interface for Control Unit | 88 in force | to Feb 2035 |
| Wearable Display Device | 52 in force | to Jul 2030 |
| Charting Audible Choices | 45 in force | to Jun 2030 |
| Display Screen with Icon | 39 in force | to Sep 2040 |
| Devices, Methods, and Associated Information Processing for Security in a Smart-Sensored Home | 26 in force | to Sep 2035 |
Patents held now
Soonest term end first.
| Patent | Title | Status | Expires | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US 7,761,842 | System and Method for Generating a Graphical User Interface (GUI) Element In force · High confidence | In force | High confidence | |
| US 7,917,480 | Document Compression System and Method for Use with Tokenspace Repository In force · High confidence | In force | High confidence | |
| US 9,268,795 | Selection of an Image or Images Most Representative of a Set of Images In force · High confidence | In force | High confidence | |
| US 7,818,680 | Method for Deleting Related Messages In force · High confidence | In force | High confidence | |
| US 7,634,517 | System and Method for Dynamically Updating a Document Repository Without Interrupting Concurrent Querying In force · High confidence | In force | High confidence | |
| US 7,680,648 | Methods and Systems for Improving Text Segmentation In force · High confidence | In force | High confidence | |
| US 7,617,226 | Document Treadmilling System and Method for Updating Documents in a Document Repository and Recovering Storage Space from Invalidated Documents In force · High confidence | In force | High confidence | |
| US 7,909,518 | Optical Assembly Connecting a Laser with Optical Fibre In force · High confidence | In force | High confidence | |
| US 7,580,921 | Phrase Identification in an Information Retrieval System In force · High confidence | In force | High confidence | |
| US 8,135,575 | Cross-Lingual Indexing and Information Retrieval In force · High confidence | In force | High confidence |
Also on record, not counted in the 26,875: 1,689 patents in force now held by others · 10,386 patents ended · 4,712 applications pending · 4,936 applications abandoned. List them
Sources and methods
Compiled from USPTO application file histories, grants and recorded assignments, with the company's own names reviewed by hand. How this record was built
Portfolio grouped automatically from ownership conveyances to the names matched to this company, usually every name that begins with its own, so it counts patents an affiliate holds; each list row names the holder of record. Security interests are excluded and ambiguous records are not reviewed by hand.
Fee due within 90 days marks a patent with a maintenance fee due within 90 days of the date this page was computed and not yet recorded paid, so it can end earlier than the bar shows. A fee left unpaid ends the patent at the close of the six month grace period that follows its due date, not on the due date itself. It is not a prediction that the fee will be missed.
Computed patent terms end on the dates shown. Related patents and pending applications may cover overlapping subject matter.