Term ends May 13, 2030 · High confidence
20-year base term ends May 13, 2030
Held by Salesforce, Inc.
Filed Mar 8, 2021 as application 17/195,193 · Granted Aug 29, 2023
Base term plus 153 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
2010
2030
Clock starts
May 13, 2010
May 13, 2010
Term ends
May 13, 2030
May 13, 2030
Granted
Aug 29, 2023
Aug 29, 2023
base term
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
153
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 10,956,656.
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.
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 153 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. 0 of 1 maintenance fees are 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 May 13, 2010, when application 12/779,683, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Mar 8, 2021) | May 13, 2030 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +153 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Oct 13, 2030 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 10,956,656) | capped to May 13, 2030 | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 0 of 1 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | May 13, 2030 | High confidence |
This family
| US 8,355,903 | In force Sep 2030 | Sep 2030 |
| Application 12/986,996 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| Application 12/986,981 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| Application 12/986,972 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| Application 13/186,346 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 8,892,417 | In force no later than Aug 2032 | no later than Aug 2032 |
| US 8,886,520 | In force no later than Aug 2032 | no later than Aug 2032 |
| US 8,775,161 | In force no later than Nov 2031 | no later than Nov 2031 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 8, 2021 Reel 55523, frame 908 | Birnbaum, Lawrence A.; Hammond, Kristian J.; Allen, Nicholas D.; Templon, John R. | Northwestern University | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Mar 8, 2021 Reel 55523, frame 982 | Northwestern University | Narrative Science Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's 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
May 2030
Term ends May 13, 2030. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 153 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 10,956,656.
Citations
42
later US patents cite this one
That is top 5% of utility patents granted in 2023 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
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