Collateral for a security interest recorded May 15, 2024 (U.S. Bank National Association).
Term ends May 8, 2033 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Oct 22, 2032
Held by Universal Electronics Inc.
Filed Dec 30, 2020 as application 17/137,960 · Granted Jul 11, 2023
Base term plus 198 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2012
2033
Clock starts
Oct 22, 2012
Oct 22, 2012
Term ends
May 8, 2033
May 8, 2033
Granted
Jul 11, 2023
Jul 11, 2023
base term
patent term adjustment
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
198
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
0 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.
67
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 198 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 0 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 22, 2012, when application 13/657,176, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Dec 30, 2020) | Oct 22, 2032 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +198 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | May 8, 2033 | 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 | 0 of 2 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | May 8, 2033 | High confidence |
This family
| US 9,215,394 | In force Dec 2032 | Dec 2032 |
| Application PCT/US2012/062161 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 9,437,105 | In force Oct 2032 | Oct 2032 |
| US 9,219,874 | In force Dec 2032 | Dec 2032 |
| US 9,307,178 | In force Oct 2032 | Oct 2032 |
| US 9,449,500 | In force Jan 2033 | Jan 2033 |
| US 10,063,625 | In force Aug 2034 | Aug 2034 |
| Application PCT/US2014/038151 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
8 of 67 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 21, 2021 Reel 54983, frame 469 | Xu, Rex; Millora, Wesley; McAllister, Steven; Hatambeiki, Arsham; Ahmadi, Nicu; Jonkman, Jelmer; Gutman, Steve; Sheridan, Norman G.; Huang, Haiming | Univesal Electronics Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jan 27, 2021 Reel 55127, frame 757 | Xu, Rex; Millora, Wesley; McAllister, Steven; Hatambeiki, Arsham; Ahmadi, Nicu; Jonkman, Jelmer; Gutman, Steve; Sheridan, Norman G; Huang, Haiming | Universal Electronics Inc. | Corrective Assignment to Correct the Assignee Name from Univesal to Universal Previously Recorded on Reel 054983 Frame 0469. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Assignment. |
| May 15, 2024 Reel 67417, frame 402 | Universal Electronics Inc. | U.S. Bank National Association | Security Interest |
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What's changing
May 2033
Term ends May 8, 2033. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 198 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
15
later US patents cite this one
That is top 5% of utility patents granted in 2023 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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In force means the term is running and no lapse is on record. It is not a finding that the patent is valid.