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US 11,184,462 Lapsed on the fee record
OverviewFamilyAssignmentsSources & methods
Collateral for a security interest recorded Sep 30, 2022 (Wilmington Trust, National Association).

Lapsed Nov 23, 2025 on the fee record · High confidence

First maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.

Held by AOL Inc.
Filed Oct 1, 2018 as application 16/148,474 · Granted Nov 23, 2021
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 11 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
Lapsed Nov 23, 2025
2005 2026
Clock starts
Dec 30, 2005
No longer in force
Nov 23, 2025
Granted
Nov 23, 2021
Term would have run to
Dec 30, 2025
base term after the term ends 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
11
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 10,148,793, US 9,450,860.
0 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.
4
Family applications on record here
Applications sharing this one's continuity chain whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.

Its term would have run to Dec 30, 2025: its 20-year base term plus 11 days of term adjustment for 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.
StepInputDate after this stepConfidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Dec 30, 2005, when application 11/321,039, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Oct 1, 2018)Dec 30, 2025High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+11 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordJan 10, 2026High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capDisclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 10,148,793, US 9,450,860)capped to Dec 30, 2025High confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events0 of 1 maintenance fees paidlapsed Nov 23, 2025High confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderNov 23, 2025High confidence

This family

US 8,082,348In force
Oct 2028
Oct 2028
US 9,450,860In force
Dec 2026
Dec 2026
US 10,148,793Term ended
Dec 2025
Dec 2025
US 11,184,462this patent
Nov 2025
Nov 2025
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 9, 2018
Reel 47105, frame 477
Averbuj, Pablo; Muehl, Mark J.; Gill, VijayAmerica Online, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Oct 9, 2018
Reel 47105, frame 586
AOL Inc.Citrix Systems, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Oct 9, 2018
Reel 47207, frame 357
America Online, Inc.AOL LLCChange of Name
Jul 30, 2019
Reel 49902, frame 345
AOL LLCAOL Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Sep 30, 2022
Reel 62079, frame 1
Citrix Systems, Inc.Wilmington Trust, National AssociationSecurity Interest
Oct 7, 2022
Reel 62112, frame 262
Tibco Software Inc.; Citrix Systems, Inc.Bank of America, N.A., as Collateral AgentPatent Security Agreement
Oct 7, 2022
Reel 62113, frame 1
Tibco Software Inc.; Citrix Systems, Inc.Goldman Sachs Bank USA, as Collateral AgentSecond Lien Patent Security Agreement
Oct 7, 2022
Reel 62113, frame 470
Tibco Software Inc.; Citrix Systems, Inc.Wilmington Trust, National Association, as Notes Collateral AgentPatent Security Agreement
Apr 14, 2023
Reel 63339, frame 525
Goldman Sachs Bank USA, as Collateral AgentCitrix Systems, Inc.; Cloud Software Group, Inc. (F/K/A Tibco Software Inc.)Release and Reassignment of Security Interest in Patent (Reel/Frame 062113/0001)
Apr 14, 2023
Reel 63340, frame 164
Cloud Software Group, Inc. (F/K/A Tibco Software Inc.); Citrix Systems, Inc.Wilmington Trust, National Association, as Notes Collateral AgentPatent Security Agreement
Apr 14, 2023
reel/frame not recorded
Goldman Sachs Bank USA, as Collateral AgentCitrix Systems, Inc.Release and Reassignment of Security Interest in Patent (Reel/Frame 062113/0001)
Apr 14, 2023
reel/frame not recorded
Goldman Sachs Bank USA, as Collateral AgentCloud Software Group, Inc. (F/K/A Tibco Software Inc.)Release and Reassignment of Security Interest in Patent (Reel/Frame 062113/0001)
May 24, 2024
Reel 67662, frame 568
Cloud Software Group, Inc. (F/K/A Tibco Software Inc.); Citrix Systems, Inc.Wilmington Trust, National Association, as Notes Collateral AgentSecurity Interest
Aug 15, 2025
Reel 72488, frame 172
Cloud Software Group, Inc.; Citrix Systems, Inc.Wilmington Trust, National Association, as Notes Collateral AgentPatent Security Agreement

Sources

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

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