Term ends Dec 29, 2040 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Sep 30, 2040
Held by Datavault AI Inc.
Filed Sep 30, 2020 as application 17/039,591 · Granted Feb 28, 2023
Base term plus 90 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2020
2040
Clock starts
Sep 30, 2020
Sep 30, 2020
Term ends
Dec 29, 2040
Dec 29, 2040
Granted
Feb 28, 2023
Feb 28, 2023
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
90
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 3
Maintenance fees paid
Three maintenance fees fall due, at 3.5, 7.5 and 11.5 years from grant. This counts the ones the record shows paid.
5
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 90 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 1 of 3 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 Sep 30, 2020, when this application, 17/039,591, was filed | Sep 30, 2040 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +90 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Dec 29, 2040 | 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 3 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Dec 29, 2040 | High confidence |
This family
| US 11,593,515 | this patent Dec 2040 | Dec 2040 |
| US 11,960,622 | In force no later than Sep 2040 | no later than Sep 2040 |
| Application 18/412,128 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 12,475,255 | In force Sep 2040 | Sep 2040 |
| Application 19/393,162 | Pending not computed | not computed |
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 12, 2020 Reel 54026, frame 975 | Blaikie, Alfred Blair, III; Bradley, Nathaniel T.; Paugh, Joshua S. | Data Donate Technologies, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Mar 7, 2022 Reel 59188, frame 168 | Data Donate Technologies, Inc. | Data Vault Holdings, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jan 7, 2025 Reel 69837, frame 372 | Data Vault Holdings, Inc. | Wisa Technologies, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Mar 13, 2025 Reel 70514, frame 711 | Wisa Technologies, Inc. | Datavault AI Inc. | Change of Name |
Sources
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What's changing
Dec 2040
Term ends Dec 29, 2040. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 90 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
8
later US patents cite this one
That is top 10% of utility patents granted in 2023 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
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