Term ended Aug 30, 2025 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Dec 1, 2024
Held by Uber Technologies, Inc.
Filed Dec 1, 2004 as application 11/000,736 · Granted Dec 24, 2019
Base term plus 1193 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
Term ended Aug 30, 2025
2004
2026
Clock starts
Dec 1, 2004
Dec 1, 2004
Term ended
Aug 30, 2025
Aug 30, 2025
Granted
Dec 24, 2019
Dec 24, 2019
base term
patent term adjustment
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
1,193
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 8,341,522, US 9,098,826, US 9,747,579.
1 of 1
Maintenance fees paid
One maintenance fee can end this term early, the one due 3.5 years from grant; the next one's grace period runs past the term end. This counts it if the record shows it paid.
43
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 1193 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. 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 1, 2004, when this application, 11/000,736, was filed | Dec 1, 2024 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +1193 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Mar 8, 2028 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 8,341,522, US 9,098,826, US 9,747,579) | capped to Aug 30, 2025 | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 1 of 1 maintenance fees paid | term ended | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Aug 30, 2025 | High confidence |
This family
| Application 10/955,966 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| Application 10/974,555 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 9,747,579 | Lapsed on the fee record Aug 2025 | Aug 2025 |
| US 8,341,522 | In force Feb 2027 | Feb 2027 |
| US 9,098,826 | Term ended Dec 2025 | Dec 2025 |
| US 10,514,816 | this patent Aug 2025 | Aug 2025 |
| Application 11/000,687 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 7,798,401 | Term ended Sep 2025 | Sep 2025 |
8 of 43 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 27, 2005 Reel 16198, frame 750 | Jung, Edward K.y.; Levien, Royce A.; Malamud, Mark A.; Rinaldo, JR., John D. | Searete LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Dec 5, 2017 Reel 44298, frame 528 | Searete LLC | The Invention Science Fund I, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jan 11, 2018 Reel 44603, frame 987 | The Invention Science Fund I, L.L.C. | Modern Geographia, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jul 23, 2019 Reel 49841, frame 19 | Modern Geographia, LLC | Uber Technologies, Inc. | Patent Assignment Agreement |
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Note
The 1193 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 8,341,522, US 9,098,826, US 9,747,579.
Citations
21
later US patents cite this one
That is top 25% of utility patents granted in 2019 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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