Term ends Dec 26, 2037 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Oct 30, 2035
Held by Tinder LLC
Filed Oct 30, 2015 as application 14/927,789 · Granted Aug 23, 2022
Base term plus 788 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2015
2037
Clock starts
Oct 30, 2015
Oct 30, 2015
Term ends
Dec 26, 2037
Dec 26, 2037
Granted
Aug 23, 2022
Aug 23, 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
788
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.
3
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 788 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 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 30, 2015, when this application, 14/927,789, was filed | Oct 30, 2035 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +788 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Dec 26, 2037 | 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 | Dec 26, 2037 | High confidence |
This family
| US 11,425,213 | this patent Dec 2037 | Dec 2037 |
| US 12,301,676 | In force Oct 2035 | Oct 2035 |
| Application 19/195,892 | Pending not computed | not computed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 30, 2015 Reel 36921, frame 617 | Rad, Sean | Tinder, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Nov 10, 2017 Reel 44095, frame 20 | Tinder, Inc. | Match Group, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Nov 10, 2017 Reel 44095, frame 208 | Match Group, Inc. | Match.com, L.l.c. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Dec 1, 2017 Reel 44621, frame 996 | Match.com, L.l.c. | Match Group, LLC | Change of Name |
| Oct 14, 2025 Reel 73065, frame 384 | Match Group, LLC | Tinder LLC | Change of Name |
Sources
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What's changing
Dec 2037
Term ends Dec 26, 2037. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 788 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
16
later US patents cite this one
That is top 10% 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
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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.