Term ended Sep 1, 2026 · Medium confidence

Computed 20-year base term

Why Medium: A parent in the chain could not be resolved.

Held by Xtone, Inc.

Filed Oct 13, 2022 as application 17/965,609 · Granted Jul 18, 2023

Base term, 20 years from filing

Today

20 years from filing

Term ended Sep 1, 2026

2006 2026

Clock starts
Sep 1, 2006

Term ended
Sep 1, 2026

Granted
Jul 18, 2023

base term after the term ends 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

None

Term adjustment

No prosecution delay on this record.

None

Terminal disclaimer

No disclaimer on this record.

1 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.

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 is its 20-year base term, with no adjustment for prosecution delay. Confidence: Medium. 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 1, 2006, when application 11/514,116, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Oct 13, 2022); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row)	Sep 1, 2026	High confidence
Continuity chain	A parent in the chain could not be resolved	dated from this application's own claim	Medium confidence
Patent term adjustment	None on file	no change	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 1 maintenance fees paid	term ended	High confidence
Computed term end	The steps above, in order	Sep 1, 2026	Medium confidence

This family

US 11,102,342	In force Dec 2026	Dec 2026
US 10,367,929	Term ended no later than Sep 2026	no later than Sep 2026
US 11,909,901	Term ended no later than Sep 2026	no later than Sep 2026
US 11,743,369	Term ended no later than Sep 2026	no later than Sep 2026
US 11,706,327	this patent Sep 2026	Sep 2026
US 11,785,127	Term ended no later than Sep 2026	no later than Sep 2026
US 11,778,082	Term ended no later than Sep 2026	no later than Sep 2026

7 of 10 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
Oct 13, 2022 Reel 61417, frame 825	Dhawan, Vishal; Price, Timothy M; Sindhwani, Manoj	Xtone Networks, Inc.	Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Mar 29, 2023 Reel 63189, frame 881	Xtone Networks, Inc.	Xtone, Inc.	Change of Name

Sources

Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO

USPTO account required: This application in Patent Center · USPTO's maintenance fee lookup

Maintenance fee events come from USPTO's own fee records. Its fee lookup asks for the patent number and the application number.

Citations

later US patents cite this one

That is below the median of utility patents granted in 2023 in our data, the only group it is compared against. 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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