Also listed on Hewlett-Packard Company, an earlier holder on the record. The recorded assignments below show how it moved.
Term ends Jun 16, 2035 · High confidence
20-year base term ends May 26, 2035
Filed Nov 13, 2019 as application 16/682,103 · Granted Oct 26, 2021
Base term plus 21 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2015
2035
Clock starts
May 26, 2015
May 26, 2015
Term ends
Jun 16, 2035
Jun 16, 2035
Granted
Oct 26, 2021
Oct 26, 2021
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
21
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
No effect
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 10,509,668, to Jun 16, 2035. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.
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.
5
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 21 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer is resolved from the filed document, and it ends no earlier than this term, so it shortens nothing. 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 May 26, 2015, when application 14/721,154, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Nov 13, 2019) | May 26, 2035 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +21 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jun 16, 2035 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 10,509,668) | resolves to Jun 16, 2035, no earlier than this term, so no change | 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 | Jun 16, 2035 | High confidence |
This family
| US 9,262,200 | In force May 2035 | May 2035 |
| US 9,612,861 | In force May 2035 | May 2035 |
| US 9,977,692 | In force May 2035 | May 2035 |
| US 10,509,668 | In force Jul 2035 | Jul 2035 |
| US 11,157,305 | this patent Jun 2035 | Jun 2035 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 13, 2019 Reel 51002, frame 761 | Buck, Charles F.; Shivok, Jason | Independenceit, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Nov 13, 2019 Reel 50995, frame 982 | Independenceit, Inc. | CJ Acquisition Corporation | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Nov 13, 2019 Reel 50996, frame 121 | 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
Jun 2035
Term ends Jun 16, 2035. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 21 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Terminal disclaimer
A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 10,509,668, ends no earlier than this term, so it caps nothing.
Citations
44
later US patents cite this one
That is top 5% of utility patents granted in 2021 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
Every date shows its work: the base term, any term adjustment or extension, any disclaimer cap, and the maintenance fee record, each with a confidence tier. How this record was built
Computed patent terms end on the dates shown. Related patents and pending applications may cover overlapping subject matter.
In force means the term is running and no lapse is on record. It is not a finding that the patent is valid.