Term ends May 11, 2031 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Feb 18, 2031
Filed Feb 18, 2011 as application 13/030,969 · Granted Oct 29, 2019
Base term plus 82 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2011
2031
Clock starts
Feb 18, 2011
Feb 18, 2011
Term ends
May 11, 2031
May 11, 2031
Granted
Oct 29, 2019
Oct 29, 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
82
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.
23
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 82 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 Feb 18, 2011, when this application, 13/030,969, was filed | Feb 18, 2031 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +82 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | May 11, 2031 | 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 | May 11, 2031 | High confidence |
This family
| US 8,788,289 | In force Feb 2031 | Feb 2031 |
| US 8,768,723 | In force Feb 2031 | Feb 2031 |
| US 8,799,021 | In force Feb 2031 | Feb 2031 |
| US 10,460,288 | this patent May 2031 | May 2031 |
| US 8,738,403 | In force no later than Feb 2031 | no later than Feb 2031 |
| Application PCT/US2012/025546 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 9,905,229 | In force Feb 2031 | Feb 2031 |
| US 8,756,079 | In force no later than Feb 2031 | no later than Feb 2031 |
8 of 23 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 23, 2011 Reel 26323, frame 931 | Flanagan, James R.; Montyne, Frank; Decraene, David; Casella Dos Santos, Mariana; Holvoet, Marnix; Doyle, Karen Anne; Manoukian, Roubik; Elcocks, Anthony J.; Shelton, Matthew R.; Abrutyn, Scott; Habboush, Isam | Nuance Communications, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Oct 30, 2023 Reel 65395, frame 690 | Nuance Communications, Inc. | Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Nov 9, 2023 Reel 65533, frame 389 | Nuance Communications, Inc. | Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
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What's changing
May 2031
Term ends May 11, 2031. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 82 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
60
later US patents cite this one
That is top 5% of utility patents granted in 2019 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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