Also listed on Adobe Systems Incorporated, an earlier holder on the record. The recorded assignments below show how it moved.

Term ends Dec 5, 2026 · Medium confidence

Computed 20-year base term

Why Medium: The disclaimer's references carry disclaimers of their own not yet read (US 9,164,963), so the cap could be lower.

Held by Adobe Inc.

Filed Dec 7, 2016 as application 15/371,870 · Granted Dec 25, 2018

Base term plus 19 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer

Today

20 years from filing

Term ends Dec 5, 2026

2006 2026

Clock starts
Dec 5, 2006

Term ends
Dec 5, 2026

Granted
Dec 25, 2018

base term 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

Days of term adjustment

Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.

Capped

Terminal disclaimer

Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 9,164,963, US 9,582,478.

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.

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 19 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. 2 of 2 maintenance fees are paid so far. Confidence: Medium. 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 5, 2006, when application 11/567,111, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Dec 7, 2016)	Dec 5, 2026	High confidence
Continuity chain	Every parent in the chain resolved	no change	High confidence
Patent term adjustment	+19 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record	Dec 24, 2026	High confidence
Terminal disclaimer cap	Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 9,164,963, US 9,582,478)	capped to Dec 5, 2026	Medium confidence
Patent term extension	None on file	no change	High confidence
Fee events	2 of 2 maintenance fees paid	In force	High confidence
Computed term end	The steps above, in order	Dec 5, 2026	Medium confidence

This family

Application 11/567,111	Abandoned not computed	not computed
US 9,164,963	In force no later than Jan 2028	no later than Jan 2028
US 9,582,478	In force Dec 2026	Dec 2026
US 10,163,088	this patent Dec 2026	Dec 2026

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
Apr 8, 2019 Reel 48867, frame 882	Adobe Systems Incorporated	Adobe Inc.	Change of Name

Sources

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What's changing

Dec 2026

Term ends Dec 5, 2026. No further fees fall due before then

Note

The 19 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us

Disclaimer cap

This term is capped by a terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 9,164,963, US 9,582,478.

Citations

later US patents cite this one

That is below the median of utility patents granted in 2018 in our data, the only group it is compared against. How we rank

Every date shows its work: the base term, any term adjustment or extension, any disclaimer cap, and the maintenance fee record, each with a confidence tier. How this record was built

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