Term ends Sep 14, 2030 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Jan 21, 2025
Held by Uber Technologies, Inc.
Filed Jan 21, 2005 as application 11/041,861 · Granted Apr 5, 2016
Base term plus 2062 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2005
2030
Clock starts
Jan 21, 2005
Jan 21, 2005
Term ends
Sep 14, 2030
Sep 14, 2030
Granted
Apr 5, 2016
Apr 5, 2016
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
2,062
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 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.
43
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 2062 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 2 of 3 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 Jan 21, 2005, when this application, 11/041,861, was filed | Jan 21, 2025 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +2062 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Sep 14, 2030 | 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 3 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Sep 14, 2030 | High confidence |
This family
| Application 10/955,966 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| Application 10/974,555 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 9,747,579 | Lapsed on the fee record Aug 2025 | Aug 2025 |
| US 8,341,522 | In force Feb 2027 | Feb 2027 |
| US 9,098,826 | Term ended Dec 2025 | Dec 2025 |
| US 10,514,816 | Term ended Aug 2025 | Aug 2025 |
| Application 11/000,687 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 7,798,401 | Term ended Sep 2025 | Sep 2025 |
8 of 43 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 14, 2005 Reel 16352, frame 903 | Jung, Edward K.y.; Levien, Royce A.; Malamud, Mark A.; Rinaldo Jr., John D. | Searete LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Aug 12, 2015 Reel 36307, frame 841 | Searete LLC | The Invention Science Fund I, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jan 11, 2018 Reel 44603, frame 987 | The Invention Science Fund I, L.L.C. | Modern Geographia, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jul 23, 2019 Reel 49841, frame 19 | Modern Geographia, LLC | Uber Technologies, Inc. | Patent Assignment Agreement |
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What's changing
Sep 2030
Term ends Sep 14, 2030. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 2062 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
128
later US patents cite this one
That is top 5% of utility patents granted in 2016 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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