Term ended Apr 14, 2025 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Nov 18, 2023
USPTO later recorded it as expired for non-payment on Jun 16, 2025.
Held by Meta Platforms, Inc.
Filed Feb 8, 2011 as application 13/023,256 · Granted May 9, 2017
Base term plus 513 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Term ended Apr 14, 2025
2003
2026
Clock starts
Nov 18, 2003
Nov 18, 2003
Term ended
Apr 14, 2025
Apr 14, 2025
Granted
May 9, 2017
May 9, 2017
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
513
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
No effect
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 7,899,862, to Apr 14, 2025. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.
1 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.
18
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 513 days past its 20-year base term on 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 Nov 18, 2003, when application 10/715,211, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Feb 8, 2011) | Nov 18, 2023 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +513 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Apr 14, 2025 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 7,899,862) | resolves to Apr 14, 2025, no earlier than this term, so no change | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 1 of 1 maintenance fees paid | term ended | High confidence |
| USPTO status record | Recorded as expired for non-payment on Jun 16, 2025, after the term ended | no change | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Apr 14, 2025 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,899,862 | In force Feb 2027 | Feb 2027 |
| US 7,653,693 | In force Nov 2026 | Nov 2026 |
| Application PCT/US2004/023382 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| Application PCT/US2004/029291 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 8,122,137 | Term ended Mar 2026 | Mar 2026 |
| US 8,577,972 | Term ended Apr 2024 | Apr 2024 |
| US 9,647,872 | this patent Apr 2025 | Apr 2025 |
| US 9,621,376 | Term ended Nov 2023 | Nov 2023 |
8 of 18 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 29, 2011 Reel 26200, frame 937 | Appelman, Barry; Buonviri, Joseph Paul; Erickson, Andrew Ivar; Jarmolowski, Thomas; Weltman, Robert Eugene | America Online, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Apr 29, 2011 Reel 26201, frame 49 | AOL LLC | AOL Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Apr 29, 2011 Reel 26201, frame 245 | America Online, Inc. | AOL LLC | Change of Name |
| Jun 28, 2012 Reel 28463, frame 125 | AOL Inc. | Facebook, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Dec 20, 2021 Reel 58961, frame 436 | Facebook, Inc. | Meta Platforms, Inc. | Change of Name |
Sources
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What's changing
Note
The 513 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Terminal disclaimer
A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 7,899,862, ends no earlier than this term, so it caps nothing.
Citations
53
later US patents cite this one
That is top 10% 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
Computed patent terms end on the dates shown. Related patents and pending applications may cover overlapping subject matter.