What's the story behind VST?

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rocksteady
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#1: Post by rocksteady »

Jeff wrote:one in China, who makes VST among others.
Do you know where VST Inc. is located? If the vstapps site is official, the about us and contact us pages both lead to 404 errors.

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rocksteady wrote:Do you know where VST Inc. is located?
Historically, Harvard, MA.
https://opencorporates.com/companies/us_ma/043084825
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#3: Post by rocksteady (original poster) replying to baldheadracing »

Good find! Voice Systems Technology, pretty cool. It shows company dissolution in 2019. Anybody know what is going on with the company?

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#4: Post by baldheadracing replying to rocksteady »

That company dissolved (there was a previous one). Looking further down in the page shows activity in 2021, so I'm guessing that a new corporate entity was formed.
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#5: Post by Jeff »

I was puzzled by this as well.

There's the patent (which doesn't show an address) and the lawsuit against Atago that lead to "VST is a Massachusetts corporation having its principal place of business at Harvard, Massachusetts, 01451." This is consistent with the data baldheadracing linked to.

Looking at the patent, it actually briefly expired according to https://patents.google.com/patent/US7952697B2/en
2019-07-08 LAPS Lapse for failure to pay maintenance fees
2020-02-24 PRDP Patent reinstated due to the acceptance of a late maintenance fee Effective date: 20200225

Current Assignee is shown on the Google page as Voice Systems Tech Inc

https://patents.justia.com/assignee/voi ... nology-inc suggests that there are several patents still assigned to Voice Systems Technology