Also listed on Yahoo! Inc., an earlier holder on the record. The recorded assignments below show how it moved.
Term ended Oct 19, 2026 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Sep 27, 2026
Held by Salesforce, Inc.
Filed Jun 29, 2020 as application 16/916,024 · Granted Feb 1, 2022
Base term plus 22 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Term ended Oct 19, 2026
2006
2026
Clock starts
Sep 27, 2006
Sep 27, 2006
Term ended
Oct 19, 2026
Oct 19, 2026
Granted
Feb 1, 2022
Feb 1, 2022
base term
patent term adjustment
after the term ends
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
22
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 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.
6
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 22 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. Confidence: High. from the record
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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 Sep 27, 2006, when application 11/528,753, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jun 29, 2020) | Sep 27, 2026 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +22 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Oct 19, 2026 | 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 1 maintenance fees paid | term ended | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Oct 19, 2026 | High confidence |
This family
| US 9,053,461 | In force Aug 2028 | Aug 2028 |
| Application PCT/US2006/038728 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 9,762,530 | Term ended Sep 2026 | Sep 2026 |
| US 10,701,026 | In force Dec 2026 | Dec 2026 |
| US 11,240,194 | this patent Oct 2026 | Oct 2026 |
| US 11,729,132 | Term ended Sep 2026 | Sep 2026 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 26, 2021 Reel 55030, frame 385 | Vemulapelli, Rajanikanth; Lu, Ming Judy; Kota, Jayarama Kumar | Yahoo! Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jan 26, 2021 Reel 55037, frame 67 | Excalibur IP, LLC | Slack Technologies, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jan 26, 2021 Reel 55122, frame 406 | Excalibur IP, LLC | Yahoo! Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jan 26, 2021 Reel 55139, frame 248 | Yahoo! Inc. | Excalibur IP, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jul 29, 2021 Reel 57475, frame 404 | Slack Technologies, Inc. | Slack Technologies, LLC | Merger |
| Aug 18, 2023 Reel 64642, frame 564 | Slack Technologies, LLC | Salesforce, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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Note
The 22 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
1
later US patent cites this one
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