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System and Method for Audio Content Navigation

US 8,296,150 Term ended
OverviewFamilyAssignmentsSources & methods
Collateral for a security interest recorded Apr 1, 2025 (Western Alliance Bank).

Term ended Aug 8, 2023 · High confidence

Filed Aug 22, 2011 as application 13/214,347 · Granted Oct 23, 2012
Base term, 20 years from filing · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
20 years from filing
Term ended Aug 8, 2023
2011 2031
Clock starts
Aug 22, 2011
Term ended
Aug 8, 2023
Granted
Oct 23, 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.
Capped
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 7,653,544, US 8,046,229.
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 is its 20-year base term, with no adjustment for prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. 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 22, 2011, when this application, 13/214,347, was filedAug 22, 2031High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustmentNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Terminal disclaimer capDisclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 7,653,544, US 8,046,229)capped to Aug 8, 2023High confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events3 of 3 maintenance fees paidterm endedHigh confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderAug 8, 2023High confidence

This family

US 7,653,544Term ended
May 2026
May 2026
US 7,966,184Lapsed on the fee record
Jun 2023
Jun 2023
US 8,046,229Term ended
Aug 2023
Aug 2023
US 8,260,616In force
May 2031
May 2031
US 8,296,150this patent
Aug 2023
Aug 2023
Application 13/280,184Abandoned
not computed
not computed
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 18, 2013
Reel 31432, frame 469
Ide, David; Bradley, Nathan T.Kino Communications, L.l.c.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Oct 18, 2013
Reel 31432, frame 527
Kino Communications, L.l.c.Audioeye, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Apr 1, 2025
Reel 70694, frame 923
Audioeye, Inc.Western Alliance BankSecurity Interest

Sources

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

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