Term ends Nov 11, 2035 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Mar 12, 2034
Held by Opera Solutions U.S.A., LLC
Filed Mar 12, 2014 as application 14/206,667 · Granted Apr 7, 2020
Base term plus 609 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2014
2035
Clock starts
Mar 12, 2014
Mar 12, 2014
Term ends
Nov 11, 2035
Nov 11, 2035
Granted
Apr 7, 2020
Apr 7, 2020
base term
patent term adjustment
fee events
Updated Nov 15, 2026 · includes USPTO assignment & status data published Nov 15, 2026 and grant & fee data published Nov 10, 2026 (weekly) · how we know
609
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
1 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.
2
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 609 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 1 of 3 maintenance fees is 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 Mar 12, 2014, when this application, 14/206,667, was filed | Mar 12, 2034 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +609 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Nov 11, 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 | 1 of 3 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Nov 11, 2035 | High confidence |
This family
| US 10,611,043 | this patent Nov 2035 | Nov 2035 |
| US 10,899,032 | In force Mar 2034 | Mar 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 4, 2014 Reel 33457, frame 541 | Miller, Carl Gregory; Dendy, Charles Lester; Straight, Jeremy J.; Griscik, Gregory James | Altria Client Services Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Nov 18, 2015 Reel 37074, frame 965 | Altria Client Services Inc.; Altria Client Services LLC | Altria Client Services LLC | Merger and Change of Name |
| Jul 6, 2016 Reel 39089, frame 761 | Opera Solutions, LLC | Opera Solutions U.S.A., LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
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What's changing
Nov 2035
Term ends Nov 11, 2035. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 609 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
4
later US patents cite this one
That is above the median of utility patents granted in 2020 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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In force means the term is running and no lapse is on record. It is not a finding that the patent is valid.