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Microcontroller Interface for Audio Signal Processing

US 12,073,314 In force
OverviewFamilyAssignmentsSources & methods
Collateral for a security interest recorded Dec 27, 2024 (Ocean II Plo LLC).

Term ends Feb 12, 2039 · High confidence

Held by Syntiant
Filed Feb 28, 2022 as application 17/683,125 · Granted Aug 27, 2024
Base term plus 199 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
20 years from filing
2018 2039
Clock starts
Jul 28, 2018
Term ends
Feb 12, 2039
Granted
Aug 27, 2024
base term patent term adjustment 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
199
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
0 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.
4
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 199 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 0 of 3 maintenance fees are 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.
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Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Jul 28, 2018, when application 16/048,235, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Feb 28, 2022)Jul 28, 2038High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+199 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordFeb 12, 2039High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events0 of 3 maintenance fees paidIn forceHigh confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderFeb 12, 2039High confidence

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US 11,270,198In force
Dec 2040
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Application PCT/US2018/044430PCT application
no patent term
no patent term
US 12,073,314this patent
Feb 2039
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Application 18/808,535Pending
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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.
RecordedAssignorAssigneeConveyance
Feb 28, 2022
Reel 59123, frame 640
Busch, Kurt F.; Holleman, Jeremiah H., III; Bailey, Stephen W.; Vorenkamp, PieterSyntiantAssignment of Assignor's Interest
Dec 27, 2024
Reel 69687, frame 757
Syntiant Corp.; Pilot AI Labs, Inc.; Syntiant Taiwan LLC; Syntiant Holdings LLCOcean II Plo LLCSecurity Interest

Sources

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