Term ended Dec 27, 2025 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Dec 27, 2025
Held by Adeia Guides Inc.
Filed Feb 14, 2017 as application 15/432,600 · Granted Jul 17, 2018
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
Term ended Dec 27, 2025
2005
2026
Clock starts
Dec 27, 2005
Dec 27, 2005
Term ended
Dec 27, 2025
Dec 27, 2025
Granted
Jul 17, 2018
Jul 17, 2018
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.
No effect
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 9,747,783, to Dec 27, 2025. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.
2 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.
8
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 is 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 Dec 27, 2005, when application 11/318,811, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Feb 14, 2017) | Dec 27, 2025 | 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 9,747,783) | resolves to Dec 27, 2025, no earlier than this term, so no change | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 2 of 2 maintenance fees paid | term ended | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Dec 27, 2025 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,768,388 | In force Apr 2027 | Apr 2027 |
| US 8,730,028 | In force Apr 2027 | Apr 2027 |
| US 9,747,783 | Term ended Oct 2026 | Oct 2026 |
| US 10,026,301 | this patent Dec 2025 | Dec 2025 |
| US 10,692,360 | Term ended Dec 2025 | Dec 2025 |
| US 11,288,949 | Term ended Dec 2025 | Dec 2025 |
| US 11,776,384 | Term ended Dec 2025 | Dec 2025 |
| Application 18/223,309 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 15, 2017 Reel 41265, frame 653 | Rovi Solutions Corporation | Rovi Guides, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Feb 15, 2017 Reel 41265, frame 701 | Putterman, Daniel; Peters, Gregory; Bullwinkle, Richard; Dykeman, Kim R.; Dietrich, Bradley | Mediabolic, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Feb 15, 2017 Reel 41728, frame 832 | Mediabolic, Inc. | Macrovision Corporation | Merger |
| Feb 15, 2017 Reel 41729, frame 787 | Macrovision Corporation | Rovi Solutions Corporation | Change of Name |
| Nov 22, 2019 Reel 51143, frame 468 | Rovi Solutions Corporation; Rovi Technologies Corporation; Rovi Guides, Inc.; TiVo Solutions, Inc.; Veveo, Inc. | HPS Investment Partners, LLC, as Collateral Agent | Security Interest |
| Nov 25, 2019 Reel 51110, frame 6 | Rovi Solutions Corporation; Rovi Technologies Corporation; Rovi Guides, Inc.; TiVo Solutions, Inc.; Veveo, Inc. | Morgan Stanley Senior Funding, Inc., as Collateral Agent | Patent Security Agreement |
| Jun 1, 2020 Reel 53468, frame 1 | Rovi Solutions Corporation; Rovi Technologies Corporation; Rovi Guides, Inc.; TiVo Solutions Inc.; Veveo, Inc.; Invensas Corporation; Invensas Bonding Technologies, Inc.; Tessera, Inc.; Tessera Advanced Technologies, Inc.; DTS, Inc.; Phorus, Inc.; Ibiquity Digital Corporation | Bank Of America, N.a. | Security Interest |
| Jun 5, 2020 Reel 53458, frame 749 | HPS Investment Partners, LLC | Rovi Solutions Corporation; Rovi Technologies Corporation; Rovi Guides, Inc.; TiVo Solutions, Inc.; Veveo, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| Jun 5, 2020 Reel 53481, frame 790 | Morgan Stanley Senior Funding, Inc. | Rovi Solutions Corporation; Rovi Technologies Corporation; Rovi Guides, Inc.; TiVo Solutions, Inc.; Veveo, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| Jun 5, 2020 reel/frame not recorded | HPS Investment Partners, LLC | Rovi Solutions Corporation | Release of Security Interest |
| Jun 5, 2020 reel/frame not recorded | HPS Investment Partners, LLC | Rovi Technologies Corporation | Release of Security Interest |
| Jun 5, 2020 reel/frame not recorded | HPS Investment Partners, LLC | Rovi Guides, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| Jun 5, 2020 reel/frame not recorded | HPS Investment Partners, LLC | TiVo Solutions, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| Jun 5, 2020 reel/frame not recorded | HPS Investment Partners, LLC | Veveo, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| Jun 5, 2020 reel/frame not recorded | Morgan Stanley Senior Funding, Inc. | Rovi Solutions Corporation | Release of Security Interest |
| Jun 5, 2020 reel/frame not recorded | Morgan Stanley Senior Funding, Inc. | Rovi Technologies Corporation | Release of Security Interest |
| Jun 5, 2020 reel/frame not recorded | Morgan Stanley Senior Funding, Inc. | Rovi Guides, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| Jun 5, 2020 reel/frame not recorded | Morgan Stanley Senior Funding, Inc. | TiVo Solutions, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| Jun 5, 2020 reel/frame not recorded | Morgan Stanley Senior Funding, Inc. | Veveo, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| Oct 2, 2024 Reel 69085, frame 376 | Rovi Guides, Inc. | Adeia Guides Inc. | Change of Name |
Sources
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Terminal disclaimer
A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 9,747,783, ends no earlier than this term, so it caps nothing.
Citations
5
later US patents cite this one
That is above the median of utility patents granted in 2018 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
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