Term ends Nov 29, 2026 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Nov 29, 2026
Held by Audio Messaging Inc.
Filed Jan 29, 2021 as application 17/162,354 · Granted Feb 14, 2023
Base term plus 27 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
2006
2026
Clock starts
Nov 29, 2006
Nov 29, 2006
Term ends
Nov 29, 2026
Nov 29, 2026
Granted
Feb 14, 2023
Feb 14, 2023
base term
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
27
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
Capped
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 10,033,876, US 10,348,909, US 10,938,995, US 8,280,014, US 9,088,667.
None due
Maintenance fees
This term ends before the first maintenance fee's grace period does, 4 years from grant, so no fee can end it early.
6
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 27 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. No maintenance fee can end this term early. 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 Jan 29, 2021) | Nov 29, 2026 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +27 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Dec 26, 2026 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 10,033,876, US 10,348,909, US 10,938,995, US 8,280,014, US 9,088,667) | capped to Nov 29, 2026 | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | No maintenance fee can end the term early | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Nov 29, 2026 | 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 | Lapsed on the fee record Mar 2025 | Mar 2025 |
| US 11,582,349 | this patent 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 2, 2021 Reel 55107, frame 919 | Bowerman, Jarold; Mancini, David | Voicecaptionit, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Feb 2, 2021 Reel 55107, frame 992 | Voicecaptionit, Inc. | Texas Technology Ventures 2, LLP | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Feb 2, 2021 Reel 55108, frame 105 | Texas Technology Ventures 2, LLP | Quest Patent Research Corporation | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Feb 2, 2021 Reel 55109, frame 644 | Quest Patent Research Corporation | Audio Messaging Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO
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Maintenance fee events come from USPTO's own fee records. Its fee lookup asks for the patent number and the application number.
What's changing
Nov 2026
Term ends Nov 29, 2026. No further fees fall due before then
Note
The 27 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Disclaimer cap
This term is capped by a terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 10,033,876, US 10,348,909, US 10,938,995, US 8,280,014, US 9,088,667.
Citations
0
later US patents cite this one
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How we rank
Every date shows its work: the base term, any term adjustment or extension, any disclaimer cap, and the maintenance fee record, each with a confidence tier. How this record was built
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In force means the term is running and no lapse is on record. It is not a finding that the patent is valid.