Term ends Jan 24, 2037 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Aug 31, 2036
Held by Salesforce, Inc.
Filed Aug 31, 2016 as application 15/253,385 · Granted Feb 1, 2022
Base term plus 778 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
2016
2037
Clock starts
Aug 31, 2016
Aug 31, 2016
Term ends
Jan 24, 2037
Jan 24, 2037
Granted
Feb 1, 2022
Feb 1, 2022
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
778
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 11,170,038, US 11,188,588, US 11,222,184, US 11,232,268.
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 778 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 Aug 31, 2016, when this application, 15/253,385, was filed | Aug 31, 2036 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +778 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Oct 18, 2038 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 11,170,038, US 11,188,588, US 11,222,184, US 11,232,268) | capped to Jan 24, 2037 | 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 24, 2037 | 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 | this patent 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 16, 2016 Reel 39765, frame 37 | Platt, Daniel Joseph; Mujica-Parodi, Mauro Eduardo Ignacio, III; Birnbaum, Lawrence A.; Sippel, Alexander Rudolph; Drake, Jonathan Alden; Sherman, Peter Horace | 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 2037
Term ends Jan 24, 2037. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 778 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 11,170,038, US 11,188,588, US 11,222,184, US 11,232,268.
Citations
27
later US patents cite this one
That is top 5% of utility patents granted in 2022 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.