Term ends Feb 6, 2035 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Feb 26, 2033
Held by Yahoo Ad Tech LLC
Filed Feb 26, 2013 as application 13/777,914 · Granted Oct 23, 2018
Base term plus 710 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2013
2035
Clock starts
Feb 26, 2013
Feb 26, 2013
Term ends
Feb 6, 2035
Feb 6, 2035
Granted
Oct 23, 2018
Oct 23, 2018
base term
patent term adjustment
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
710
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
2 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.
42
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 runs 710 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 2 of 3 maintenance fees are paid so far. 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 26, 2013, when this application, 13/777,914, was filed | Feb 26, 2033 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +710 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Feb 6, 2035 | 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 | 2 of 3 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Feb 6, 2035 | High confidence |
This family
| US 10,108,982 | this patent Feb 2035 | Feb 2035 |
| US 11,562,404 | In force Sep 2035 | Sep 2035 |
| US 9,854,311 | Lapsed on the fee record Dec 2025 | Dec 2025 |
| US 10,678,869 | In force Apr 2034 | Apr 2034 |
| US 9,015,062 | In force Jun 2033 | Jun 2033 |
| US 9,374,438 | In force Mar 2034 | Mar 2034 |
| US 11,328,323 | In force Nov 2035 | Nov 2035 |
| Application PCT/US2014/018336 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
8 of 42 applications in this family shown, earliest filings first. 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 26, 2013 Reel 29880, frame 603 | Patton, Matthew M.; Demsey, Seth | AOL Advertising Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Aug 2, 2013 Reel 30936, frame 11 | AOL Inc.; AOL Advertising Inc.; Buysight, Inc.; Mapquest, Inc.; Pictela, Inc. | JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as Administrative Agent | Security Agreement |
| Jul 1, 2015 Reel 36042, frame 53 | Jpmorgan Chase Bank, N.a. | AOL Advertising Inc.; AOL Inc.; Buysight, Inc.; Mapquest, Inc.; Pictela, Inc. | Release of Security Interest in Patent Rights -Release of 030936/0011 |
| Jul 1, 2015 reel/frame not recorded | Jpmorgan Chase Bank, N.a. | AOL Advertising Inc. | Release of Security Interest in Patent Rights -Release of 030936/0011 |
| Jul 1, 2015 reel/frame not recorded | Jpmorgan Chase Bank, N.a. | AOL Inc. | Release of Security Interest in Patent Rights -Release of 030936/0011 |
| Jul 1, 2015 reel/frame not recorded | Jpmorgan Chase Bank, N.a. | Buysight, Inc. | Release of Security Interest in Patent Rights -Release of 030936/0011 |
| Jul 1, 2015 reel/frame not recorded | Jpmorgan Chase Bank, N.a. | Mapquest, Inc. | Release of Security Interest in Patent Rights -Release of 030936/0011 |
| Jul 1, 2015 reel/frame not recorded | Jpmorgan Chase Bank, N.a. | Pictela, Inc. | Release of Security Interest in Patent Rights -Release of 030936/0011 |
| Jun 30, 2017 Reel 43072, frame 66 | AOL Advertising Inc. | Oath (Americas) Inc. | Change of Name |
| Feb 24, 2020 Reel 51999, frame 720 | Oath (Americas) Inc. | Verizon Media Inc. | Change of Name |
| Mar 22, 2022 Reel 59471, frame 863 | Verizon Media Inc. | Yahoo Ad Tech LLC | Change of Name |
Sources
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What's changing
Feb 2035
Term ends Feb 6, 2035. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 710 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
26
later US patents cite this one
That is top 25% of utility patents granted in 2018 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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