4,996 patents currently held

25 more in force are now held by other companies

Held is read from USPTO's recorded assignments; a transfer never recorded there does not appear.

2 more records may belong here and await a decision; they are not counted.

The next term ends in Nov 2026. from the record

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Ending by 2030

Nov 2026

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3,565

Patent families

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Held patents by the year their term ends

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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

Applied Artificial Intelligence Technology for Narrative Generation Based on a Conditional Outcome Framework US 11,562,146

Cited by 58 later US patents, top 1% of utility patents granted in 2023 in our data. Protection runs to 2038. A terminal disclaimer caps this term to an earlier patent's.

Ends Feb 2038 · High confidence Also notable

System and Method for Using Data and Angles to Automatically Generate a Narrative Story US 11,741,301

Cited by 42 later US patents, top 5% of utility patents granted in 2023 in our data. Protection runs to 2030. A terminal disclaimer caps this term to an earlier patent's.

Ends May 2030 · High confidence Also notable

Automatic Generation of Narratives from Data Using Communication Goals and Narrative Analytics US 10,755,042

Cited by 91 later US patents, top 5% of utility patents granted in 2020 in our data. Protection runs to 2035. A terminal disclaimer caps this term to an earlier patent's.

Ends Jan 2035 · High confidence

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.

13 fees due Nov 28 to 30, 2026 · next Nov 28
86 fees due Dec 2 to 30, 2026 · next Dec 2
78 fees due Jan 2 to 30, 2027 · next Jan 2
108 fees due Feb 1 to 28, 2027 · next Feb 1
103 fees due Mar 1 to 29, 2027 · next Mar 1
104 fees due Apr 1 to 30, 2027 · next Apr 1
108 fees due May 3 to 28, 2027 · next May 3
88 fees due Jun 1 to 30, 2027 · next Jun 1
104 fees due Jul 2 to 30, 2027 · next Jul 2
97 fees due Aug 2 to 27, 2027 · next Aug 2
106 fees due Sep 1 to 30, 2027 · next Sep 1
70 fees due Oct 2 to 30, 2027 · next Oct 2
30 fees due Nov 3 to 12, 2027 · next Nov 3

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Recent changes

Nov 12Assignment recorded on 1 record: Ghatage, Anup to Salesforce, Inc. Recorded Nov 12, 2026, executed May 27, 2024. Conveyance as recorded: Assignment of Assignor's Interest. A recorded assignment is a filed document, not a statement of current ownership. Reel 76735, frame 1.
Oct 26Assignment recorded on 1 record: P J, Jose Lejin and 4 others to Salesforce, Inc. Recorded Oct 26, 2026, executed Jun 27, 2024. Conveyance as recorded: Assignment of Assignor's Interest. A recorded assignment is a filed document, not a statement of current ownership. Reel 76511, frame 47.
90 of the patents on this record were granted since Aug 16, 2026
14 terms have ended since Aug 16, 2026

What they patent

The 5 largest of its 3,565 families, grouped by real patent family and labeled by the earliest filing in each. No technology classification is inferred from titles.

Utilizing a Geo-Locator Service and Zone Servers to Reduce Computer Resource Requirements for Determining High Quality Solutions to Routing Problems	23 in force	to Feb 2039
Automatic Generation of Narratives from Data Using Communication Goals and Narrative Analytics	21 in force	to May 2042
System and Method for Using Data and Angles to Automatically Generate a Narrative Story	19 in force	to Jan 2033
Applied Artificial Intelligence Technology for Performing Natural Language Generation (NLG) Using Composable Communication Goals and Ontologies to Generate Narrative Stories	16 in force	to Aug 2038
Display Screen or Portion Thereof with Graphical User Interface	12 in force	to Jul 2040

Patents held now

Soonest term end first.

Patent	Title	Status	Expires	Confidence
US 8,799,233	System, Method and Computer Program Product for Validating One or More Metadata Objects In force Term ends Nov 29, 2026 · High confidence	In force	Term ends Nov 29, 2026	High confidence
US 9,378,227	Systems and Methods for Exporting, Publishing, Browsing and Installing On-Demand Applications in a Multi-Tenant Database Environment In force Term ends Dec 15, 2026 · High confidence	In force	Term ends Dec 15, 2026	High confidence
US 8,051,101	Methods and Procedures to Provide Complete Test Copy Environment of Hosted Applications In force (reinstated) Term ends Dec 19, 2026 · Medium confidence	In force (reinstated)	Term ends Dec 19, 2026	Medium confidence
US 8,538,994	Methods and Procedures to Provide Complete Test Copy Environment of Hosted Applications In force Term ends Dec 19, 2026 · High confidence	In force	Term ends Dec 19, 2026	High confidence
US 10,701,026	Instant Messaging Interoperability Between Disparate Service Providers In force Term ends Dec 27, 2026 · High confidence	In force	Term ends Dec 27, 2026	High confidence
US 8,959,443	Method and System for Presenting a Visual Representation of the Portion of the Sets of Data That a Query Is Expected to Return In force Term ends Jan 31, 2027 · High confidence	In force	Term ends Jan 31, 2027	High confidence
US 8,548,952	Methods and Systems for Providing Fault Recovery to Side Effects Occurring During Data Processing In force Term ends Feb 23, 2027 · High confidence	In force	Term ends Feb 23, 2027	High confidence
US 8,918,361	Methods and Systems for Recursive Saving of Hierarchical Objects to a Database In force Term ends Feb 23, 2027 · High confidence	In force	Term ends Feb 23, 2027	High confidence
US 8,930,322	Methods and Systems for Bulk Row Save Logic in an Object Relational Mapping Layer and Application Framework In force Ends no later than Feb 23, 2027 · Medium confidence	In force	Ends no later than Feb 23, 2027	Medium confidence
US 7,734,608	System, Method and Computer Program Product for Querying Data Relationships Over a Network In force Term ends Mar 2, 2027 · High confidence	In force	Term ends Mar 2, 2027	High confidence

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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.

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