Collateral for a security interest recorded Oct 1, 2025 (JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.).
Term ends Jun 13, 2035 · Medium confidence
20-year base term ends Oct 24, 2034
Why Medium: A parent in the chain could not be resolved.
Held by Turner Broadcasting System, Inc.
Filed Jan 28, 2016 as application 15/008,844 · Granted Oct 27, 2020
Base term plus 232 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2014
2035
Clock starts
Oct 24, 2014
Oct 24, 2014
Term ends
Jun 13, 2035
Jun 13, 2035
Granted
Oct 27, 2020
Oct 27, 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
232
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.
13
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 232 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 1 of 3 maintenance fees is 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 Oct 24, 2014, when application 14/522,739, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jan 28, 2016); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row) | Oct 24, 2034 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | A parent in the chain could not be resolved | dated from this application's own claim | Medium confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +232 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jun 13, 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 | Jun 13, 2035 | Medium confidence |
This family
| US 10,025,875 | In force Feb 2035 | Feb 2035 |
| Application 14/522,884 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 10,635,737 | In force Oct 2034 | Oct 2034 |
| US 10,540,418 | In force Oct 2034 | Oct 2034 |
| US 9,875,318 | In force Nov 2034 | Nov 2034 |
| US 9,965,568 | In force Nov 2034 | Nov 2034 |
| US 9,934,322 | In force Feb 2035 | Feb 2035 |
| US 9,792,386 | In force Mar 2035 | Mar 2035 |
8 of 13 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 7, 2016 Reel 38222, frame 51 | Chandler, Keith; Wellen, Alex; Loheide, Don; Persaud, Rajin; Koetter, Michael; Hinton, Chris; Davis, Neda; Poffenberger, Laura | Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Nov 7, 2023 Reel 65595, frame 352 | Chandler, Keith; Wellen, Alex; Loheide, Don; Persaud, Rajin; Koetter, Michael; Hinton, Chris; Davis, Neda; Poffenberger, Laura | Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. | Corrective Assignment to Correct the Application No. and Filing Dates on the Original Filed Assignment Previously Recorded at Reel: 038222 Frame: 0051. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Assignment. |
| Oct 1, 2025 Reel 72995, frame 858 | Warner Bros. Discovery, Inc.; Warner Media, LLC; Turner Broadcasting System, Inc.; Home Box Office, Inc.; Discovery Communications, LLC; Warnermedia Direct LLC; Discovery.com LLC; Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.; CNN Interactive Group, Inc. | JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as Collateral Agent | Security Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Jun 2035
Term ends Jun 13, 2035. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 232 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
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.
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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.