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Method and System for Providing Secure Codecs

US 10,691,778 In force
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Term ends Aug 5, 2027 · High confidence

Held by Google LLC
Filed Feb 28, 2017 as application 15/445,959 · Granted Jun 23, 2020
Base term plus 685 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
20 years from filing
2005 2027
Clock starts
Sep 19, 2005
Term ends
Aug 5, 2027
Granted
Jun 23, 2020
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
685
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
No effect
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 9,609,279, to Aug 5, 2027. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.
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.
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 685 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer is resolved from the filed document, and it ends no earlier than this term, so it shortens nothing. 1 of 1 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.
StepInputDate after this stepConfidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Sep 19, 2005, when application 11/230,291, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Feb 28, 2017)Sep 19, 2025High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+685 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordAug 5, 2027High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capDisclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 9,609,279)resolves to Aug 5, 2027, no earlier than this term, so no changeHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events1 of 1 maintenance fees paidIn forceHigh confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderAug 5, 2027High confidence

This family

US 9,609,279In force
Dec 2032
Dec 2032
Application PCT/US2005/033616PCT application
no patent term
no patent term
US 10,691,778this patent
Aug 2027
Aug 2027
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.
RecordedAssignorAssigneeConveyance
Oct 20, 2017
Reel 44567, frame 1
Google Inc.Google LLCChange of Name

Sources

Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO

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