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Conferencing Apparatus with an Automatically Adapting Beamforming Microphone Array

US 9,641,688 In force
OverviewFamilyAssignmentsSources & methods

Term ends Jun 11, 2032 · High confidence

Filed Dec 28, 2015 as application 14/979,822 · Granted May 2, 2017
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
20 years from filing
2012 2032
Clock starts
Jun 11, 2012
Term ends
Jun 11, 2032
Granted
May 2, 2017
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 9,264,553, to Jun 11, 2032. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.
2 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.
11
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 3 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.
StepInputDate after this stepConfidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Jun 11, 2012, when applications 13/493,921 and 13/493,950, the earliest non-provisional applications in its chain, were filed (this one was filed Dec 28, 2015)Jun 11, 2032High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustmentNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Terminal disclaimer capDisclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 9,264,553)resolves to Jun 11, 2032, no earlier than this term, so no changeHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events2 of 3 maintenance fees paidIn forceHigh confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderJun 11, 2032High confidence

This family

US 9,226,088In force
Nov 2033
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US 9,264,553In force
Jun 2034
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US 9,641,688this patent
Jun 2032
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US 9,854,101In force
Jun 2032
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US 9,635,186In force
Jun 2032
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US 11,272,064In force
Jun 2032
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US 9,866,952In force
Jun 2032
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Application 15/488,492Abandoned
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8 of 11 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.
RecordedAssignorAssigneeConveyance
Dec 3, 2021
Reel 58284, frame 401
Pandey, Ashutosh; Thurston, Darrin T.; Lambert, David K.; Bathurst, Tracy A.Clearone Communications, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Dec 3, 2021
Reel 58302, frame 810
Clearone Communications Inc.Clearone Inc.Change of Name
Oct 30, 2025
Reel 73144, frame 390
Clearone Holding, LLCBiamp Systems, LLCAssignment of Assignor's Interest
Nov 18, 2025
Reel 73179, frame 609
Clearone, Inc.Clearone Holding, LLCAssignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

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

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