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Speech-Based Optimization of Digital Hearing Devices

US 7,206,416 Term ended
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Term ended Nov 11, 2024 · High confidence

Filed Jun 18, 2004 as application 10/872,313 · Granted Apr 17, 2007
Base term plus 146 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
20 years from filing
Term ended Nov 11, 2024
2004 2026
Clock starts
Jun 18, 2004
Term ended
Nov 11, 2024
Granted
Apr 17, 2007
base term patent term adjustment 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
146
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
3 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.
8
Family applications on record here
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This patent's term runs 146 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. All three maintenance fees were paid, so no fee lapse ended it. Confidence: High. from the record

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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.
StepInputDate after this stepConfidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Jun 18, 2004, when this application, 10/872,313, was filedJun 18, 2024High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+146 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordNov 11, 2024High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events3 of 3 maintenance fees paidterm endedHigh confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderNov 11, 2024High confidence

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Application 11/421,889Abandoned
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US 9,319,812In force
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Application PCT/US2009/055348PCT application
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US 9,553,984In force
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US 9,666,181Term ended
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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
Oct 19, 2004
Reel 15270, frame 705
Shrivastav, Rahul; Holmes, Alice E.; Bedenbaugh, III, PurvisUniversity of Florida Research Foundation, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Feb 7, 2007
Reel 18862, frame 979
Krause, Lee A.Audigence Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Sep 10, 2013
Reel 31175, frame 754
AudigenceCochlear LimitedAssignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

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

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