Collateral for a security interest recorded Jun 15, 2020 (Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.).
Term ended Jul 28, 2025 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Jun 22, 2025
Held by Nuance Communications, Inc.
Filed Jun 22, 2005 as application 11/158,994 · Granted Sep 13, 2011
Base term plus 36 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Term ended Jul 28, 2025
2005
2026
Clock starts
Jun 22, 2005
Jun 22, 2005
Term ended
Jul 28, 2025
Jul 28, 2025
Granted
Sep 13, 2011
Sep 13, 2011
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
36
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
3 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.
19
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 36 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. All three maintenance fees were paid, so no fee lapse ended it. 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 Jun 22, 2005, when this application, 11/158,994, was filed | Jun 22, 2025 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +36 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jul 28, 2025 | 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 | 3 of 3 maintenance fees paid | term ended | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Jul 28, 2025 | High confidence |
This family
| US 6,912,498 | Term ended Apr 2022 | Apr 2022 |
| US 7,315,818 | Term ended Jul 2022 | Jul 2022 |
| US 8,019,324 | this patent Jul 2025 | Jul 2025 |
| US 7,957,975 | Lapsed on the fee record Jun 2023 | Jun 2023 |
| US 8,775,189 | Lapsed on the fee record Jul 2022 | Jul 2022 |
| US 7,822,610 | In force Jun 2029 | Jun 2029 |
| US 8,106,742 | In force Oct 2030 | Oct 2030 |
| US 8,103,509 | In force Jul 2030 | Jul 2030 |
8 of 19 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 6, 2005 Reel 16724, frame 515 | Roth, Daniel L.; Reiner, Chris; Furnari, Mark; Cohen, Jordan | Voice Signal Technologies, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Sep 13, 2012 Reel 28952, frame 277 | Voice Signal Technologies, Inc. | Nuance Communications, Inc. | Merger |
| Oct 23, 2019 Reel 50836, frame 191 | Nuance Communications, Inc. | Cerence Inc. | Intellectual Property Agreement |
| Oct 29, 2019 Reel 50871, frame 1 | Nuance Communications, Inc. | Cerence Operating Company | Corrective Assignment to Correct the Assignee Name Previously Recorded at Reel: 050836 Frame: 0191. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Intellectual Property Agreement. |
| Nov 7, 2019 Reel 50953, frame 133 | Cerence Operating Company | Barclays Bank PLC | Security Agreement |
| Jun 12, 2020 Reel 52927, frame 335 | Barclays Bank PLC | Cerence Operating Company | Release of Security Interest |
| Jun 15, 2020 Reel 52935, frame 584 | Cerence Operating Company | Wells Fargo Bank, N.a. | Security Agreement |
| Apr 19, 2022 Reel 59804, frame 186 | Nuance Communications, Inc. | Cerence Operating Company | Corrective Assignment to Correct the Replace the Conveyance Document with the New Assignment Previously Recorded at Reel: 050836 Frame: 0191. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Assignment. |
| Jan 2, 2025 Reel 69797, frame 818 | Wells Fargo Bank, National Association | Cerence Operating Company | Release (REEL 052935 / Frame 0584) |
Sources
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Note
The 36 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
35
later US patents cite this one
That is top 25% of utility patents granted in 2011 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
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