Term ended Mar 19, 2025 · High confidence

Computed 20-year base term

USPTO later recorded it as expired for non-payment on Nov 2, 2026.

Held by Google LLC

Filed Dec 12, 2011 as application 13/323,664 · Granted Sep 30, 2014

Base term plus 170 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)

Today

20 years from filing

Term ended Mar 19, 2025

2004 2026

Clock starts
Sep 30, 2004

Term ended
Mar 19, 2025

Granted
Sep 30, 2014

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

170

Days of term adjustment

Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.

None

Terminal disclaimer

No disclaimer on this record.

2 of 2

Maintenance fees paid

Two maintenance fees can end this term early, the ones due 3.5 and 7.5 years from grant; the third one's grace period runs past the term end. This counts the ones the record shows paid.

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 170 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 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 Sep 30, 2004, when application 10/955,281, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Dec 12, 2011)	Sep 30, 2024	High confidence
Continuity chain	Every parent in the chain resolved	no change	High confidence
Patent term adjustment	+170 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record	Mar 19, 2025	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	2 of 2 maintenance fees paid	term ended	High confidence
USPTO status record	Recorded as expired for non-payment on Nov 2, 2026, after the term ended	no change	High confidence
Computed term end	The steps above, in order	Mar 19, 2025	High confidence

This family

US 7,680,648	In force Nov 2026	Nov 2026
US 8,078,633	Term ended Sep 2024	Sep 2024
US 8,849,852	this patent Mar 2025	Mar 2025

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
Jul 16, 2012 Reel 28559, frame 82	Elbaz, Gilad Israel; Mandelson, Jacob Leon	Google Inc.	Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Oct 2, 2017 Reel 44277, frame 1	Google Inc.	Google LLC	Change of Name

Sources

Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO

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Note

The 170 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us

Citations

later US patents cite this one

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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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