Also listed on Agnitio SL, an earlier holder on the record. The recorded assignments below show how it moved.
Term ends Jun 20, 2032 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Dec 10, 2029
Filed Jun 11, 2012 as application 13/515,281 · Granted Apr 7, 2015
Base term plus 923 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2009
2032
Clock starts
Dec 10, 2009
Dec 10, 2009
Term ends
Jun 20, 2032
Jun 20, 2032
Granted
Apr 7, 2015
Apr 7, 2015
base term
patent term adjustment
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
923
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
2 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.
This patent's term runs 923 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 2 of 3 maintenance fees are paid so far. 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 Dec 10, 2009, when application PCT/EP2009/008851, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jun 11, 2012) | Dec 10, 2029 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +923 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jun 20, 2032 | 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 | 2 of 3 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Jun 20, 2032 | High confidence |
This family
| US 9,002,706 | this patent Jun 2032 | Jun 2032 |
1 of 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 19, 2015 Reel 34989, frame 108 | Lopez, Jesus Antonio Villalba; Gimenez, Alfonso Ortega; Solano, Eduardo Lleida; Gomar, Marta Garcia | Agnitio SL | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Sep 16, 2015 Reel 36617, frame 510 | Redondo, Varela | Agnitio S.L. | Declaration in Support of Assignment in the United States Patent and Trademark Office |
| Nov 14, 2023 Reel 65578, frame 676 | Nuance Communications, Inc. | Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
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What's changing
Jun 2032
Term ends Jun 20, 2032.
Note
The 923 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
7
later US patents cite this one
That is above the median of utility patents granted in 2015 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
Every date shows its work: the base term, any term adjustment or extension, any disclaimer cap, and the maintenance fee record, each with a confidence tier. How this record was built
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