Lapsed Mar 2, 2025 on the fee record · High confidence
20-year base term ends Nov 29, 2026
First maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.
Held by Audio Messaging Inc.
Filed May 23, 2019 as application 16/421,055 · Granted Mar 2, 2021
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
Lapsed Mar 2, 2025
2006
2026
Clock starts
Nov 29, 2006
Nov 29, 2006
No longer in force
Mar 2, 2025
Mar 2, 2025
Granted
Mar 2, 2021
Mar 2, 2021
Term would have run to
Nov 29, 2026
Nov 29, 2026
base term
after the term ends
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 10,033,876, US 10,348,909, US 9,088,667, to Nov 29, 2026. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.
0 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.
6
Family applications on record here
Applications sharing this one's continuity chain whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.
Its term would have run to Nov 29, 2026: 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. 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 Nov 29, 2006, when application 11/606,566, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed May 23, 2019) | Nov 29, 2026 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 10,033,876, US 10,348,909, US 9,088,667) | resolves to Nov 29, 2026, no earlier than this term, so no change | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 0 of 1 maintenance fees paid | lapsed Mar 2, 2025 | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Mar 2, 2025 | High confidence |
This family
| US 8,280,014 | Lapsed on the fee record Oct 2024 | Oct 2024 |
| US 9,088,667 | In force Jun 2027 | Jun 2027 |
| US 10,033,876 | Lapsed on the fee record Jul 2026 | Jul 2026 |
| US 10,348,909 | In force Nov 2026 | Nov 2026 |
| US 10,938,995 | this patent Mar 2025 | Mar 2025 |
| US 11,582,349 | In force Nov 2026 | Nov 2026 |
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 24, 2019 Reel 49279, frame 935 | Bowerman, Jarold; Mancini, David | Voicecaptionit, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| May 24, 2019 Reel 49280, frame 106 | Voicecaptionit, Inc. | Texas Technology Ventures 2, LLP | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Oct 27, 2020 Reel 54180, frame 831 | Texas Technology Ventures 2, LLP | Quest Patent Research Corporation | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jan 11, 2021 Reel 54876, frame 8 | Quest Patent Research Corporation | Audio Messaging Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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Terminal disclaimer
A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 10,033,876, US 10,348,909, US 9,088,667, ends no earlier than this term, so it caps nothing.
Citations
0
later US patents cite this one
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