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Hybrid Video Coding Techniques

US 9,313,486 Lapsed on the fee record
OverviewFamilyAssignmentsSources & methods
Collateral for a security interest recorded Aug 7, 2018 (Esw Holdings, Inc.).

Lapsed Apr 12, 2024 on the fee record · High confidence

Second maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.

Held by Vidyo, Inc.
Filed Sep 13, 2013 as application 14/026,813 · Granted Apr 12, 2016
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 398 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed Apr 12, 2024
2012 2033
Clock starts
Mar 7, 2012
No longer in force
Apr 12, 2024
Granted
Apr 12, 2016
Term would have run to
Apr 9, 2033
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
398
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
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.
7
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 Apr 9, 2033: its 20-year base term plus 398 days of term 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.
StepInputDate after this stepConfidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Mar 7, 2012, when application 13/414,075, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Sep 13, 2013)Mar 7, 2032High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+398 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordApr 9, 2033High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events1 of 3 maintenance fees paidlapsed Apr 12, 2024High confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderApr 12, 2024High confidence

This family

Application 13/347,381Abandoned
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Application 13/414,075Abandoned
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Application 13/528,010Abandoned
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US 8,938,004In force
Jul 2032
Jul 2032
US 8,649,441In force
Jan 2032
Jan 2032
Application PCT/US2013/020955PCT application
no patent term
no patent term
US 9,313,486this patent
Apr 2024
Apr 2024
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.
RecordedAssignorAssigneeConveyance
Nov 20, 2013
Reel 31637, frame 942
Boyce, Jill; Wenger, Stephan; Hong, DannyVidyo, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Aug 7, 2018
Reel 46737, frame 421
Vidyo, Inc.Esw Holdings, Inc.Security Interest

Sources

Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO

USPTO account required: This application in Patent Center · USPTO's maintenance fee lookup

Maintenance fee events come from USPTO's own fee records. Its fee lookup asks for the patent number and the application number.

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