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Automatic Conversion of Speech into Song, Rap, or Other Audible Expression Having Target Meter or Rhythm

US 9,666,199 In force
OverviewFamilyAssignmentsSources & methods
Collateral for a security interest recorded Feb 26, 2020 (Western Alliance Bank).

Term ends Jul 18, 2034 · High confidence

Held by Smule, Inc.
Filed Jun 5, 2013 as application 13/910,949 · Granted May 30, 2017
Base term plus 476 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
20 years from filing
2013 2034
Clock starts
Mar 29, 2013
Term ends
Jul 18, 2034
Granted
May 30, 2017
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
476
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.
17
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 476 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.
StepInputDate after this stepConfidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Mar 29, 2013, when applications 13/853,759 and PCT/US2013/034678, the earliest non-provisional applications in its chain, were filed (this one was filed Jun 5, 2013)Mar 29, 2033High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+476 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordJul 18, 2034High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events2 of 3 maintenance fees paidIn forceHigh confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderJul 18, 2034High confidence

This family

Application 13/219,648Abandoned
not computed
not computed
US 9,324,330In force
Apr 2034
Apr 2034
Application PCT/US2013/034678PCT application
no patent term
no patent term
US 9,666,199this patent
Jul 2034
Jul 2034
Application PCT/US2013/053851PCT application
no patent term
no patent term
US 9,459,768In force
Jan 2034
Jan 2034
Application PCT/US2013/074820PCT application
no patent term
no patent term
US 10,262,644In force
Mar 2033
Mar 2033
8 of 17 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
May 3, 2016
Reel 38448, frame 288
Chordia, Parag; Godfrey, Mark; Rae, Alexander; Gupta, Prerna; Cook, Perry R.Smule, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Feb 26, 2020
Reel 52022, frame 440
Smule, Inc.Western Alliance BankSecurity Interest

Sources

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

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