Term ends no later than Sep 15, 2041 · Medium confidence
20-year base term ends Oct 19, 2038
In force on USPTO's status record and by its fee record. A terminal disclaimer on file may shorten this term, possibly to a date already past; its reference document is unresolved, so the date above is an upper bound and no earlier date is guessed.
Held by Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
Filed Oct 19, 2018 as application 16/165,806 · Granted Apr 25, 2023
Base term plus 1062 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2018
2041
Clock starts
Oct 19, 2018
Oct 19, 2018
Ends no later than
Sep 15, 2041
Sep 15, 2041
Granted
Apr 25, 2023
Apr 25, 2023
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
1,062
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
Unresolved
Terminal disclaimer
On file, reference document not resolved, so the date above is an upper bound. We do not guess the cap.
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.
67
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 1062 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer is on file with no resolved reference, so no cap is applied and none is guessed. 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 19, 2018, when this application, 16/165,806, was filed | Oct 19, 2038 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +1062 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Sep 15, 2041 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer on file (approved), reference document not resolved | no cap applied, and none guessed | Medium 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 | no later than Sep 15, 2041 | Medium confidence |
This family
| US 10,990,174 | In force Dec 2037 | Dec 2037 |
| US 11,337,652 | In force Sep 2039 | Sep 2039 |
| US 10,592,001 | In force May 2038 | May 2038 |
| US 10,937,414 | In force Aug 2038 | Aug 2038 |
| US 11,216,069 | In force May 2038 | May 2038 |
| US 11,635,736 | this patent no later than Sep 2041 | no later than Sep 2041 |
| Application 16/165,841 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 10,504,286 | In force Jan 2039 | Jan 2039 |
8 of 67 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 23, 2019 Reel 48109, frame 106 | Kaifosh, Patrick; Giurgica-tiron, Tudor; Machado, Timothy; Reardon, Thomas; Schomburg, Erik | CTRL-Labs Corporation | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jan 20, 2020 Reel 51649, frame 1 | CTRL-Labs Corporation | Facebook Technologies, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Feb 10, 2020 Reel 51867, frame 136 | CTRL-Labs Corporation | Facebook Technologies, LLC | Corrective Assignment to Correct the Receiving Party Data Previously Recorded at Reel: 051649 Frame: 0001. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Assignment. |
| May 26, 2022 Reel 60199, frame 876 | Facebook Technologies, LLC | Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC | Change of Name |
Sources
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What's changing
Sep 2041
Term ends no later than Sep 15, 2041. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
A terminal disclaimer is on file and its reference is not resolved. No cap is applied and none is guessed
Note
The 1062 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Open question
A terminal disclaimer is on file (approved) and its reference document is not resolved. A disclaimer would cap the term earlier than Sep 15, 2041. We will not guess the cap.
Citations
51
later US patents cite this one
That is top 1% of utility patents granted in 2023 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
This computed term ends no later than the date shown; an unresolved terminal disclaimer may end it earlier. 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.