Also listed on Brightroll, Inc., an earlier holder on the record. The recorded assignments below show how it moved.
Term ends Oct 14, 2036 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Oct 7, 2034
Held by Yahoo Ad Tech LLC
Filed Oct 7, 2014 as application 14/508,942 · Granted Oct 23, 2018
Base term plus 738 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2014
2036
Clock starts
Oct 7, 2014
Oct 7, 2014
Term ends
Oct 14, 2036
Oct 14, 2036
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
738
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.
3
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 738 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 Oct 7, 2014, when this application, 14/508,942, was filed | Oct 7, 2034 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +738 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Oct 14, 2036 | 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 | Oct 14, 2036 | High confidence |
This family
| US 10,108,985 | this patent Oct 2036 | Oct 2036 |
| Application PCT/US2015/048509 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 10,783,562 | In force Oct 2034 | Oct 2034 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 10, 2014 Reel 34467, frame 648 | Musumeci, Gian-paolo | Brightroll, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Mar 20, 2015 Reel 35220, frame 145 | Brightroll, Inc. | Yahoo! Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jun 23, 2017 Reel 42963, frame 211 | Yahoo! Inc. | Yahoo Holdings, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Feb 2, 2018 Reel 45240, frame 310 | Yahoo Holdings, Inc. | Oath Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Oct 26, 2020 Reel 54258, frame 635 | Oath Inc. | Verizon Media Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Mar 22, 2022 Reel 59471, frame 514 | Verizon Media Inc. | Yahoo Ad Tech LLC | Change of Name |
Sources
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What's changing
Oct 2036
Term ends Oct 14, 2036. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 738 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
6
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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In force means the term is running and no lapse is on record. It is not a finding that the patent is valid.