Term ends Jan 5, 2035 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Oct 22, 2034
Held by Salesforce, Inc.
Filed May 11, 2018 as application 15/977,141 · Granted Aug 25, 2020
Base term plus 246 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
2014
2035
Clock starts
Oct 22, 2014
Oct 22, 2014
Term ends
Jan 5, 2035
Jan 5, 2035
Granted
Aug 25, 2020
Aug 25, 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
246
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 10,747,823.
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.
23
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 246 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. 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 Oct 22, 2014, when application 14/521,264, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed May 11, 2018) | Oct 22, 2034 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +246 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jun 25, 2035 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 10,747,823) | capped to Jan 5, 2035 | 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 | Jan 5, 2035 | High confidence |
This family
| US 9,720,899 | In force Feb 2035 | Feb 2035 |
| US 9,977,773 | In force Dec 2034 | Dec 2034 |
| US 9,697,492 | In force Mar 2035 | Mar 2035 |
| US 9,576,009 | In force Oct 2034 | Oct 2034 |
| US 9,697,197 | In force Feb 2035 | Feb 2035 |
| US 11,238,090 | In force Jan 2037 | Jan 2037 |
| US 11,222,184 | In force Jan 2038 | Jan 2038 |
| US 11,232,268 | In force Jan 2038 | Jan 2038 |
8 of 23 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 11, 2018 Reel 45778, frame 110 | Birnbaum, Lawrence; Hammond, Kristian J.; Nichols, Nathan Drew; Paley, Andrew R. | Narrative Science Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Aug 30, 2019 Reel 50237, frame 365 | Narrative Science Inc. | Cibc Bank USA | Security Interest |
| Mar 1, 2022 Reel 59640, frame 8 | Cibc Bank USA | Narrative Science Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| Mar 25, 2024 Reel 66884, frame 1 | Narrative Science Inc. | Narrative Science LLC | Change of Name |
| Mar 25, 2024 Reel 67218, frame 449 | Narrative Science LLC | Salesforce, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
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What's changing
Jan 2035
Term ends Jan 5, 2035. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 246 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 10,747,823.
Citations
91
later US patents cite this one
That is top 5% 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
Computed patent terms end on the dates shown. Related patents and pending applications may cover overlapping subject matter.
In force means the term is running and no lapse is on record. It is not a finding that the patent is valid.