Lapsed Mar 28, 2025 on the fee record · High confidence
20-year base term ends Sep 19, 2030
Second maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.
Held by Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
Filed Mar 1, 2016 as application 15/057,382 · Granted Mar 28, 2017
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
Lapsed Mar 28, 2025
2010
2030
Clock starts
Sep 19, 2010
Sep 19, 2010
No longer in force
Mar 28, 2025
Mar 28, 2025
Granted
Mar 28, 2017
Mar 28, 2017
Term would have run to
Sep 19, 2030
Sep 19, 2030
base term
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
None
Term adjustment
No prosecution delay on this record.
No effect
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 9,507,411, to Sep 19, 2030. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.
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.
4
Family applications on record here
Applications sharing this one's continuity chain whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.
Its term would have run to Sep 19, 2030: its 20-year base term, with no adjustment for prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer is resolved from the filed document, and it ends no earlier than this term, so it shortens nothing. 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 19, 2010, when application PCT/IB2010/054228, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Mar 1, 2016) | Sep 19, 2030 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 9,507,411) | resolves to Sep 19, 2030, no earlier than this term, so no change | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 1 of 3 maintenance fees paid | lapsed Mar 28, 2025 | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Mar 28, 2025 | High confidence |
This family
| US 9,507,411 | In force Sep 2030 | Sep 2030 |
| US 9,606,618 | this patent Mar 2025 | Mar 2025 |
| US 9,927,881 | In force Sep 2030 | Sep 2030 |
3 of 4 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 4, 2016 Reel 40196, frame 790 | Oculus VR, LLC | Facebook, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Nov 7, 2016 Reel 40245, frame 813 | Grossinger, Nadav; Grossinger, Israel; Romano, Nitay | Pebblestech Ltd. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Nov 7, 2016 Reel 40245, frame 855 | Pebbles Ltd. | Oculus VR, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Nov 7, 2016 Reel 40654, frame 790 | Pebblestech Ltd. | Pebbles Ltd. | Change of Name |
| Nov 30, 2018 Reel 47687, frame 942 | Facebook, Inc. | Facebook Technologies, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jun 8, 2022 Reel 60315, frame 224 | Facebook Technologies, LLC | Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC | Change of Name |
Sources
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Terminal disclaimer
A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 9,507,411, ends no earlier than this term, so it caps nothing.
Citations
6
later US patents cite this one
That is above the median of utility patents granted in 2017 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
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