Collateral for a security interest recorded May 15, 2024 (U.S. Bank National Association).
Term ends Dec 12, 2032 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Oct 22, 2032
Held by Universal Electronics Inc.
Filed Oct 22, 2012 as application 13/657,176 · Granted Dec 15, 2015
Base term plus 88 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
2012
2032
Clock starts
Oct 22, 2012
Oct 22, 2012
Term ends
Dec 12, 2032
Dec 12, 2032
Granted
Dec 15, 2015
Dec 15, 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
88
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
Capped
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 9,219,874.
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.
67
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 88 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. 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 22, 2012, when this application, 13/657,176, was filed | Oct 22, 2032 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +88 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jan 18, 2033 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 9,219,874) | capped to Dec 12, 2032 | 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 | Dec 12, 2032 | High confidence |
This family
| US 9,215,394 | this patent Dec 2032 | Dec 2032 |
| Application PCT/US2012/062161 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 9,437,105 | In force Oct 2032 | Oct 2032 |
| US 9,219,874 | In force Dec 2032 | Dec 2032 |
| US 9,307,178 | In force Oct 2032 | Oct 2032 |
| US 9,449,500 | In force Jan 2033 | Jan 2033 |
| US 10,063,625 | In force Aug 2034 | Aug 2034 |
| Application PCT/US2014/038151 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
8 of 67 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 22, 2012 Reel 29167, frame 423 | Barnett, Brian; Arling, Paul D. | Universal Electronics Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| May 15, 2024 Reel 67417, frame 402 | Universal Electronics Inc. | U.S. Bank National Association | Security Interest |
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What's changing
Dec 2032
Term ends Dec 12, 2032. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 88 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Disclaimer cap
This term is capped by a terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 9,219,874.
Citations
88
later US patents cite this one
That is top 5% of utility patents granted in 2015 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
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In force means the term is running and no lapse is on record. It is not a finding that the patent is valid.