Term ended Feb 10, 2024 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Feb 10, 2024
Held by Universal Electronics Inc.
Filed Apr 28, 2011 as application 13/096,141 · Granted May 8, 2012
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
Term ended Feb 10, 2024
2004
2026
Clock starts
Feb 10, 2004
Feb 10, 2004
Term ended
Feb 10, 2024
Feb 10, 2024
Granted
May 8, 2012
May 8, 2012
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.
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.
10
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. 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.
| Step | Input | Date after this step | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Base term, 20 years from filing | Clock starts Feb 10, 2004, when application 10/777,023, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Apr 28, 2011) | Feb 10, 2024 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High 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 | 3 of 3 maintenance fees paid | term ended | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Feb 10, 2024 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,259,696 | Term ended Aug 2025 | Aug 2025 |
| US 7,339,513 | Term ended Oct 2024 | Oct 2024 |
| US 7,286,076 | Lapsed on the fee record Oct 2019 | Oct 2019 |
| US 7,936,287 | Term ended Aug 2026 | Aug 2026 |
| US 8,952,840 | In force no later than Dec 2028 | no later than Dec 2028 |
| US 8,174,411 | this patent Feb 2024 | Feb 2024 |
| US 9,792,133 | Term ended Aug 2024 | Aug 2024 |
| US 9,542,212 | Term ended no later than Jun 2024 | no later than Jun 2024 |
8 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 28, 2011 Reel 26193, frame 91 | Zilog, Inc. | Uei Cayman Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Apr 28, 2016 Reel 38402, frame 250 | Uei Cayman Inc. | C.G. Development Limited | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Apr 29, 2016 Reel 38416, frame 581 | C.G. Development Limited; Uei Cayman Inc. | Universal Electronics Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
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Citations
4
later US patents cite this one
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