Term ends Oct 13, 2034 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Oct 13, 2034
Held by Knowles Electronics, LLC
Filed Oct 23, 2014 as application 14/522,129 · Granted Jul 7, 2015
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
2014
2034
Clock starts
Oct 13, 2014
Oct 13, 2014
Term ends
Oct 13, 2034
Oct 13, 2034
Granted
Jul 7, 2015
Jul 7, 2015
base term
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.
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.
29
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. 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 Oct 13, 2014, when application 14/512,877, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Oct 23, 2014) | Oct 13, 2034 | 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 | 2 of 3 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Oct 13, 2034 | High confidence |
This family
| US 8,987,030 | Lapsed on the fee record Mar 2019 | Mar 2019 |
| Application 13/658,337 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 9,712,923 | In force May 2034 | May 2034 |
| Application PCT/US2014/053235 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 9,502,028 | In force Oct 2034 | Oct 2034 |
| US 10,028,054 | Lapsed on the fee record Jul 2026 | Jul 2026 |
| US 9,113,263 | In force May 2034 | May 2034 |
| US 9,076,447 | this patent Oct 2034 | Oct 2034 |
8 of 29 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 30, 2014 Reel 34107, frame 624 | Nandy, Dibyendu; Li, Yang; Thomsen, Henrik | Knowles Electronics, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jun 2, 2015 Reel 35807, frame 229 | Nandy, Dibyendu; Li, Yang; Thomsen, Henrik; Furst, Claus Erdmann | Knowles Electronics, LLC | Corrective Assignment to Add Fourth Inventor Previously Recorded at Reel: 034107 Frame: 0624. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Assignment. |
Sources
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What's changing
Oct 2034
Term ends Oct 13, 2034. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Citations
26
later US patents cite this one
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