Also listed on Roim Acquisition Corporation, an earlier holder on the record. The recorded assignments below show how it moved.
Term ends Oct 31, 2027 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Oct 31, 2027
Held by Veritone, Inc.
Filed Oct 1, 2013 as application 14/043,397 · Granted Mar 5, 2019
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
2007
2027
Clock starts
Oct 31, 2007
Oct 31, 2007
Term ends
Oct 31, 2027
Oct 31, 2027
Granted
Mar 5, 2019
Mar 5, 2019
base term
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 8,548,844, US 8,584,844, to Oct 31, 2027. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.
2 of 2
Maintenance fees paid
Two maintenance fees can end this term early, the ones due 3.5 and 7.5 years from grant; the third one's grace period runs past the term end. This counts the ones the record shows paid.
127
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 is 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. 2 of 2 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 Oct 31, 2007, when applications 11/981,646 and 11/981,837, the earliest non-provisional applications in its chain, were filed (this one was filed Oct 1, 2013) | Oct 31, 2027 | 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 8,548,844, US 8,584,844) | resolves to Oct 31, 2027, no earlier than this term, so no change | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 2 of 2 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Oct 31, 2027 | High confidence |
This family
| Application 10/072,692 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| Application 60/993,096 | Provisional application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 7,809,603 | In force Oct 2028 | Oct 2028 |
| Application 11/981,646 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 9,294,727 | In force Sep 2028 | Sep 2028 |
| Application 12/072,692 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| Application 12/042,913 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| Application 12/079,769 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
8 of 127 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 14, 2014 Reel 33309, frame 10 | Steelberg, Chad; Steelberg, Ryan | Brand Affinity Technologies, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jul 14, 2014 Reel 33319, frame 294 | Brand Affinity Technologies, Inc. | Roim Acquisition Corporation | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jul 16, 2014 Reel 33351, frame 750 | Roim Acquisition Corporation | Veritone, Inc. | Merger |
| Dec 13, 2023 Reel 66140, frame 513 | Veritone, Inc. | Wilmington Savings Fund Society, FSB, as Collateral Agent | Security Interest |
| Nov 19, 2025 Reel 73634, frame 333 | Wilmington Savings Fund Society, FSB, as Collateral Agent | Veritone, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Oct 2027
Term ends Oct 31, 2027. No further fees fall due before then
Terminal disclaimer
A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 8,548,844, US 8,584,844, ends no earlier than this term, so it caps nothing.
Citations
0
later US patents cite this one
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