106 patents currently held

7 more in force are now held by other companies

Held is read from USPTO's recorded assignments; a transfer never recorded there does not appear.

10 more records may belong here and await a decision; they are not counted.

The next term ends in Nov 2026. from the record

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Ending by 2030

Nov 2026

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notable patents fee due within 90 days all others 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

Notable: the highest-ranked patents in this portfolio by citations and family size. Fee due within 90 days: a maintenance fee is due within 90 days of when this page was computed and not yet paid.

Notable patents

Ranked by citations and family size, against patents of the same kind granted the same year. How we rank

Notable

Method of Consolidating, Synchronizing, and Streaming Production Content for Distributed Editing of Media Compositions US 9,448,789

Cited by 38 later US patents, top 10% of utility patents granted in 2016 in our data, and renewed at every maintenance window due so far. Protection runs to 2035.

Ends Apr 2035 · High confidence Also notable

Editing System for Audiovisual Works and Corresponding Text for Television News US 7,836,389

Cited by 71 later US patents, top 10% of utility patents granted in 2010 in our data, and renewed at 3 of 3 maintenance windows. Protection runs to 2027.

Ends Jun 2027 · Medium confidence Also notable

Communication Protocol for Controlling Transfer of Temporal Data Over a Bus Between Devices in Synchronization with a Periodic Reference Signal US 7,949,777

Cited by 54 later US patents, top 25% of utility patents granted in 2011 in our data, and renewed at 3 of 3 maintenance windows. Protection runs to 2030.

Ends Jan 2030 · High confidence

Fee deadlines

Maintenance fees fall due 3.5, 7.5 and 11.5 years after grant. A missed fee ends a patent at the end of the six month grace period that follows, not on the due date.

2 fees due Nov 21 to 28, 2026 · next Nov 21
3 fees due Dec 4 to 30, 2026 · next Dec 4
1 fee due Feb 18, 2027
The maintenance fee for Automated Detection and Correction of Stereoscopic Edge Violations (US 9,111,352) comes due Feb 18, 2027. Unpaid by Aug 18, 2027, it lapses early.
3 fees due Mar 12 to 26, 2027 · next Mar 12
2 fees due Apr 8 to 29, 2027 · next Apr 8
1 fee due May 5, 2027
The maintenance fee for Augmented Reality Audio Mixing (US 10,466,960) comes due May 5, 2027. Unpaid by Nov 5, 2027, it lapses early.
1 fee due Jun 5, 2027
The maintenance fee for Multidimensional Gestures for Music Creation Applications (US 11,837,206) comes due Jun 5, 2027. Unpaid by Dec 6, 2027, it lapses early.
2 fees due Jul 7 to 16, 2027 · next Jul 7
1 fee due Aug 18, 2027
The maintenance fee for Format-Independent Media File Indexing (US 10,567,502) comes due Aug 18, 2027. Unpaid by Feb 18, 2028, it lapses early.
2 fees due Oct 7 to 19, 2027 · next Oct 7
1 fee due Nov 12, 2027
The maintenance fee for Methods and Systems for Collaborative Media Creation (US 10,650,349) comes due Nov 12, 2027. Unpaid by May 12, 2028, it lapses early.

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Recent changes

2 of the patents on this record were granted since Aug 16, 2026
1 term has ended since Aug 16, 2026

What they patent

The 5 largest of its 88 families, grouped by real patent family and labeled by the earliest filing in each. No technology classification is inferred from titles.

Method of Consolidating, Synchronizing, and Streaming Production Content for Distributed Editing of Media Compositions	4 in force	to Oct 2035
Data Exchange for Music Creation Applications	2 in force	to May 2042
Context-Based Media Indexing	2 in force	to Nov 2041
Adaptive Deep Learning For Efficient Media Content Creation And Manipulation	2 in force	to Apr 2041
Optimizing Audio Signal Networks Using Partitioning and Mixer Processing Graph Recomposition	2 in force	to Dec 2039

Patents held now

Soonest term end first.

Patent	Title	Status	Expires	Confidence
US 7,684,096	Automatic Color Correction for Sequences of Images In force Term ends Nov 18, 2026 · High confidence	In force	Term ends Nov 18, 2026	High confidence
US 7,433,519	Bitstream Format for Compressed Image Data In force Term ends Jan 18, 2027 · High confidence	In force	Term ends Jan 18, 2027	High confidence
US 7,671,871	Graphical User Interface for Color Correction Using Curves In force Term ends Feb 1, 2027 · High confidence	In force	Term ends Feb 1, 2027	High confidence
US 7,836,389	Editing System for Audiovisual Works and Corresponding Text for Television News In force Term ends Jun 7, 2027 · Medium confidence	In force	Term ends Jun 7, 2027	Medium confidence
US 7,698,009	Control Surface with a Touchscreen for Editing Surround Sound In force Term ends Feb 15, 2028 · High confidence	In force	Term ends Feb 15, 2028	High confidence
US 7,733,858	Communication Protocol Between a Host Computer and a Control Surface in an Audio Editing/Mixing System In force Term ends Feb 28, 2028 · High confidence	In force	Term ends Feb 28, 2028	High confidence
US 8,139,068	Three-Dimensional Animation of Soft Tissue of Characters Using Controls Associated with a Surface Mesh held by Autodesk, Inc. In force Term ends Jul 3, 2028 · High confidence	In force	Term ends Jul 3, 2028	High confidence
US 8,818,537	Software monitor and control application for use with a digital audio studio suite In force Term ends Aug 30, 2028 · High confidence	In force	Term ends Aug 30, 2028	High confidence
US 9,070,403	Processing of Scalable Compressed Video Data Formats for Nonlinear Video Editing Systems In force Term ends Sep 29, 2028 · High confidence	In force	Term ends Sep 29, 2028	High confidence
US 7,733,918	System for Live Audio Presentations In force Term ends Oct 24, 2028 · High confidence	In force	Term ends Oct 24, 2028	High confidence

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Sources and methods

Compiled from USPTO application file histories, grants and recorded assignments, with the company's own names reviewed by hand. How this record was built

Portfolio grouped automatically from ownership conveyances to the names matched to this company, usually every name that begins with its own, so it counts patents an affiliate holds; each list row names the holder of record. Security interests are excluded and ambiguous records are not reviewed by hand.

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