Lapsed Jul 17, 2026 on the fee record · High confidence
20-year base term ends Oct 13, 2034
Second maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.
Held by Knowles Electronics LLC
Filed Oct 13, 2014 as application 14/512,846 · Granted Jul 17, 2018
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
Lapsed Jul 17, 2026
2014
2034
Clock starts
Oct 13, 2014
Oct 13, 2014
No longer in force
Jul 17, 2026
Jul 17, 2026
Granted
Jul 17, 2018
Jul 17, 2018
Term would have run to
Oct 13, 2034
Oct 13, 2034
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.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
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.
29
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 Oct 13, 2034: its 20-year base term, with no adjustment for 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 Oct 13, 2014, when this application, 14/512,846, was filed | Oct 13, 2034 | 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 | None on record | no cap applied | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 1 of 3 maintenance fees paid | lapsed Jul 17, 2026 | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Jul 17, 2026 | High confidence |
This family
| US 8,987,030 | Lapsed on the fee record Mar 2019 | Mar 2019 |
| Application 13/658,337 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 9,712,923 | In force May 2034 | May 2034 |
| Application PCT/US2014/053235 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 9,502,028 | In force Oct 2034 | Oct 2034 |
| US 10,028,054 | this patent Jul 2026 | Jul 2026 |
| US 9,113,263 | In force May 2034 | May 2034 |
| US 9,076,447 | In force Oct 2034 | Oct 2034 |
8 of 29 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 29, 2015 Reel 36913, frame 919 | Furst, Claus Erdmann; Yurttas, Aziz; Gueorguiev, Svetoslav; Mortensen, Anders | Knowles Electronics LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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Citations
23
later US patents cite this one
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How we rank
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