Also listed on Gravity.com, Inc., an earlier holder on the record. The recorded assignments below show how it moved.
Term ends Aug 8, 2031 · Medium confidence
20-year base term ends Aug 8, 2031
Why Medium: The disclaimer's references carry disclaimers of their own not yet read (US 10,984,339), so the cap could be lower.
Filed Mar 12, 2021 as application 17/199,691 · Granted Nov 26, 2024
Base term plus 930 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
2011
2031
Clock starts
Aug 8, 2011
Aug 8, 2011
Term ends
Aug 8, 2031
Aug 8, 2031
Granted
Nov 26, 2024
Nov 26, 2024
base term
Updated Nov 15, 2026 · includes USPTO assignment & status data published Nov 15, 2026 and grant & fee data published Nov 10, 2026 (weekly) · how we know
930
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 10,984,339, US 9,202,176, US 9,558,456.
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.
4
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 930 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: 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 Aug 8, 2011, when application 13/205,585, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Mar 12, 2021) | Aug 8, 2031 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +930 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Feb 23, 2034 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 10,984,339, US 9,202,176, US 9,558,456) | capped to Aug 8, 2031 | Medium 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 | Aug 8, 2031 | Medium confidence |
This family
| US 9,202,176 | Lapsed on the fee record Dec 2023 | Dec 2023 |
| US 9,558,456 | Lapsed on the fee record Jan 2025 | Jan 2025 |
| US 10,984,339 | Lapsed on the fee record Apr 2025 | Apr 2025 |
| US 12,154,008 | this patent Aug 2031 | Aug 2031 |
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 15, 2021 Reel 55586, frame 782 | Kapur, Amit R.; Pearman, Steven F.; Benedetto, James R. | Project Rover, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Mar 15, 2021 Reel 55586, frame 811 | Gravity.com LLC | Oath Inc. | Merger |
| Mar 15, 2021 Reel 55586, frame 846 | Oath Inc. | Verizon Media Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Mar 15, 2021 Reel 55587, frame 254 | Project Rover, Inc. | Gravity.com, Inc. | Change of Name |
| Aug 19, 2021 Reel 57453, frame 431 | Verizon Media Inc. | Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Aug 2031
Term ends Aug 8, 2031. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 930 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 10,984,339, US 9,202,176, US 9,558,456.
Citations
0
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