Also listed on Tri-Vision Systems, Inc., an earlier holder on the record. The recorded assignments below show how it moved.
Term ends Dec 17, 2030 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Apr 5, 2026
Filed Oct 27, 2009 as application 12/606,629 · Granted Aug 27, 2019
Base term plus 1717 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2006
2030
Clock starts
Apr 5, 2006
Apr 5, 2006
Term ends
Dec 17, 2030
Dec 17, 2030
Granted
Aug 27, 2019
Aug 27, 2019
base term
patent term adjustment
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
1,717
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 2
Maintenance fees paid
Two maintenance fees can end this term early, the ones due 3.5 and 7.5 years from grant; the third one's grace period runs past the term end. This counts the ones the record shows paid.
4
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 1717 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 1 of 2 maintenance fees is 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.
| Step | Input | Date after this step | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Base term, 20 years from filing | Clock starts Apr 5, 2006, when application 11/398,376, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Oct 27, 2009) | Apr 5, 2026 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +1717 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Dec 17, 2030 | 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 2 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Dec 17, 2030 | High confidence |
This family
| Application 11/398,376 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| Application PCT/US2007/065937 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 10,397,558 | this patent Dec 2030 | Dec 2030 |
| US 9,313,482 | In force May 2028 | May 2028 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 27, 2009 Reel 23430, frame 521 | Lippey, Barret; Barker, Charles R., III | Bose Corporation | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Nov 28, 2016 Reel 40427, frame 56 | Bose Corporation | Tri-Vision Systems, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jul 16, 2018 Reel 46356, frame 525 | Tri-Vision Systems, Inc. | Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO
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What's changing
Dec 2030
Term ends Dec 17, 2030. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 1717 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
3
later US patents cite this one
That is below the median of utility patents granted in 2019 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
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