Collateral for a security interest recorded May 15, 2024 (U.S. Bank National Association).
Term ended Aug 9, 2024 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Feb 10, 2024
USPTO later recorded it as expired for non-payment on Nov 24, 2025.
Held by Universal Electronics Inc.
Filed May 3, 2012 as application 13/463,589 · Granted Oct 17, 2017
Base term plus 181 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Term ended Aug 9, 2024
2004
2026
Clock starts
Feb 10, 2004
Feb 10, 2004
Term ended
Aug 9, 2024
Aug 9, 2024
Granted
Oct 17, 2017
Oct 17, 2017
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
181
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 1
Maintenance fees paid
One maintenance fee can end this term early, the one due 3.5 years from grant; the next one's grace period runs past the term end. This counts it if the record shows it paid.
10
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 181 days past its 20-year base term on 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.
| Step | Input | Date after this step | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Base term, 20 years from filing | Clock starts Feb 10, 2004, when application 10/777,023, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed May 3, 2012) | Feb 10, 2024 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +181 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Aug 9, 2024 | 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 | 1 of 1 maintenance fees paid | term ended | High confidence |
| USPTO status record | Recorded as expired for non-payment on Nov 24, 2025, after the term ended | no change | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Aug 9, 2024 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,259,696 | Term ended Aug 2025 | Aug 2025 |
| US 7,339,513 | Term ended Oct 2024 | Oct 2024 |
| US 7,286,076 | Lapsed on the fee record Oct 2019 | Oct 2019 |
| US 7,936,287 | Term ended Aug 2026 | Aug 2026 |
| US 8,952,840 | In force no later than Dec 2028 | no later than Dec 2028 |
| US 8,174,411 | Term ended Feb 2024 | Feb 2024 |
| US 9,792,133 | this patent Aug 2024 | Aug 2024 |
| US 9,542,212 | Term ended no later than Jun 2024 | no later than Jun 2024 |
8 of 10 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 17, 2012 Reel 28563, frame 757 | Zilog, Inc. | Uei Cayman Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Apr 29, 2016 Reel 38416, frame 581 | C.G. Development Limited; Uei Cayman Inc. | Universal Electronics Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| May 15, 2024 Reel 67417, frame 402 | Universal Electronics Inc. | U.S. Bank National Association | Security Interest |
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The 181 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
23
later US patents cite this one
That is top 25% of utility patents granted in 2017 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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