Lapsed May 29, 2020 on the fee record · High confidence
20-year base term ends Feb 25, 2029
Second maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.
Held by Veritone Alpha, Inc.
Filed Feb 25, 2009 as application 12/392,933 · Granted May 29, 2012
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 630 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed May 29, 2020
2009
2030
Clock starts
Feb 25, 2009
Feb 25, 2009
No longer in force
May 29, 2020
May 29, 2020
Granted
May 29, 2012
May 29, 2012
Term would have run to
Nov 17, 2030
Nov 17, 2030
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
630
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
1 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.
2
Family applications on record here
Applications sharing this one's continuity chain whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.
Its term would have run to Nov 17, 2030: its 20-year base term plus 630 days of term adjustment for prosecution delay. 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 25, 2009, when this application, 12/392,933, was filed | Feb 25, 2029 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +630 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Nov 17, 2030 | 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 3 maintenance fees paid | lapsed May 29, 2020 | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | May 29, 2020 | High confidence |
This family
| US 8,190,541 | this patent May 2020 | May 2020 |
| US 8,706,664 | In force no later than Feb 2029 | no later than Feb 2029 |
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 9, 2009 Reel 22528, frame 676 | Downs, Oliver B.; Sandoval, Michael; Branzan, Claudiu Alin; Iovanov, Vlad Mircea; Khalsa, Sopurkh Singh; Bisca, Radu Ioan; Milos, Catalin Teodor | Atigeo LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Aug 28, 2014 Reel 33654, frame 499 | Atigeo LLC | Venture Lending & Leasing VI, Inc.; Venture Lending & Leasing VII, Inc. | Security Interest |
| Aug 28, 2014 reel/frame not recorded | Atigeo LLC | Venture Lending & Leasing VI, Inc. | Security Interest |
| Aug 28, 2014 reel/frame not recorded | Atigeo LLC | Venture Lending & Leasing VII, Inc. | Security Interest |
| Nov 2, 2016 Reel 40201, frame 404 | Atigeo LLC | Atigeo Corp. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jun 6, 2018 Reel 46302, frame 883 | Atigeo Corporation | Veritone Alpha, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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Note
The 630 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
80
later US patents cite this one
That is top 10% of utility patents granted in 2012 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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