Also listed on Cloudjumper Corporation, an earlier holder on the record. The recorded assignments below show how it moved.
Term ends Jan 6, 2039 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Mar 27, 2038
Filed Mar 27, 2018 as application 15/937,121 · Granted Oct 27, 2020
Base term plus 285 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2018
2039
Clock starts
Mar 27, 2018
Mar 27, 2018
Term ends
Jan 6, 2039
Jan 6, 2039
Granted
Oct 27, 2020
Oct 27, 2020
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
285
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
1 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.
3
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 285 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 1 of 3 maintenance fees is 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 Mar 27, 2018, when this application, 15/937,121, was filed | Mar 27, 2038 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +285 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jan 6, 2039 | 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 | 1 of 3 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Jan 6, 2039 | High confidence |
This family
| US 10,819,702 | this patent Jan 2039 | Jan 2039 |
| US 11,671,421 | In force no later than Sep 2038 | no later than Sep 2038 |
| US 12,107,849 | In force no later than Mar 2038 | no later than Mar 2038 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 29, 2018 Reel 45387, frame 447 | Buck, Charles F. | Independenceit, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Mar 29, 2018 Reel 45766, frame 669 | Independenceit, Inc. | CJ Acquisition Corporation | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Mar 29, 2018 Reel 45387, frame 554 | CJ Acquisition Corporation | Cloudjumper Corporation | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jun 22, 2020 Reel 53121, frame 586 | Cloud Jumper Corporation | Cloud Jumper LLC | Change of Name |
| Jun 24, 2020 Reel 53028, frame 13 | Cloud Jumper LLC | NetApp, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jan 15, 2024 Reel 66122, frame 352 | NetApp, Inc. | Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.p. | Nunc Pro Tunc Assignment |
Sources
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What's changing
Jan 2039
Term ends Jan 6, 2039. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 285 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 2020 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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