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Computer system for predicting the evolution of a chronological set of numerical values
The next death on the clock. A system for forecasting a chronological series of numbers — priced, filed, and granted in language general enough to describe a good chunk of modern algorithmic forecasting.
Assignee: — · Filed 2006-07-07 · Granted 2012-10-30 · Est. expiry 2026-07-07
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Dates here are estimates from patent-term math (20 years from filing, or the older 17-from-grant/20-from-filing rule for pre-1995 filings), not a legal determination. They ignore patent-term adjustments, extensions, and terminal disclaimers, and don't reflect maintenance-fee lapses that haven't happened yet. This is not legal advice.
US8301675 was filed July 7, 2006 and granted October 30, 2012. Twenty years after filing, the standard patent term runs out — July 7, 2026.
It shares its filing date, almost to the letter, with three Sermo Inc. patents on 'information brokering' services (US8019637, US8019639, US10510087) — all four die on the same July morning, a small coincidence of a single busy filing day two decades ago becoming a single busy death day now.
What a claim to 'predicting the evolution of a chronological set of numerical values' actually covers, in practice, is broad enough to brush up against a lot of ordinary time-series forecasting — the kind of thing that ships in open-source libraries without anyone checking a patent database first. After July 7, nobody has to check.
Patent record: US8301675