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US 7,653,544 Term ended
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Collateral for a security interest recorded Apr 23, 2010 (Cmgo Investors, LLC).

Term ended May 1, 2026 · High confidence

Filed Aug 8, 2003 as application 10/637,970 · Granted Jan 26, 2010
Base term plus 997 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
20 years from filing
Term ended May 1, 2026
2003 2026
Clock starts
Aug 8, 2003
Term ended
May 1, 2026
Granted
Jan 26, 2010
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
997
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.
14
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 997 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

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.
StepInputDate after this stepConfidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Aug 8, 2003, when this application, 10/637,970, was filedAug 8, 2023High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+997 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordMay 1, 2026High 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 orderMay 1, 2026High confidence

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US 8,046,229Term ended
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US 8,260,616In force
May 2031
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Aug 2023
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Application 13/280,184Abandoned
not computed
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US 8,589,169Term ended
Aug 2023
Aug 2023
Application PCT/US2012/061620PCT application
no patent term
no patent term
8 of 14 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.
RecordedAssignorAssigneeConveyance
Oct 28, 2005
Reel 16699, frame 463
Ide, David; Bradley, Nathan TKino Communications, L.l.c.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Oct 28, 2005
Reel 16699, frame 492
Kino Communications, L.l.c.Audioeye, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Apr 23, 2010
Reel 24278, frame 577
Audioeye, Inc.Cmgo Investors, LLCSecurity Agreement
Nov 30, 2023
Reel 65729, frame 547
Audioeye, Inc.SG Credit Partners, Inc.Security Agreement
Feb 16, 2024
Reel 66694, frame 799
Audioeye, Inc.SG Credit Partners, Inc.Security Agreement
Jul 24, 2024
Reel 68349, frame 117
Audioeye, Inc.SG Credit Partners, Inc.Security Agreement
Apr 1, 2025
Reel 70694, frame 923
Audioeye, Inc.Western Alliance BankSecurity Interest
Apr 1, 2025
Reel 70697, frame 135
SG Credit Partners, Inc.Audioeye, Inc.Release of Security Interest

Sources

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

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