Term ends Jan 31, 2037 · Medium confidence
20-year base term ends Jan 31, 2037
Why Medium: A parent in the chain could not be resolved.
Held by Vmware LLC
Filed Dec 2, 2018 as application 16/207,156 · Granted Feb 15, 2022
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
2017
2037
Clock starts
Jan 31, 2017
Jan 31, 2017
Term ends
Jan 31, 2037
Jan 31, 2037
Granted
Feb 15, 2022
Feb 15, 2022
base term
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
None
Term adjustment
No prosecution delay on this record.
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.
27
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 is its 20-year base term, with no adjustment for prosecution delay. 1 of 3 maintenance fees is paid so far. Confidence: Medium. 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 Jan 31, 2017, when application 15/421,409, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Dec 2, 2018); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row) | Jan 31, 2037 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | A parent in the chain could not be resolved | dated from this application's own claim | Medium confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | None on file | no change | 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 31, 2037 | Medium confidence |
This family
| Application 15/421,409 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| Application 16/017,873 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| Application 16/164,457 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| Application 16/189,735 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| Application 16/188,740 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 11,252,079 | this patent Jan 2037 | Jan 2037 |
| Application 16/207,155 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 10,992,558 | In force Nov 2037 | Nov 2037 |
8 of 27 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 18, 2020 Reel 53815, frame 149 | The Mode Group | Vmware, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Oct 13, 2020 Reel 54037, frame 626 | Michael, Nithin; Tang, Ao; Silva, Victor de Souza Lima E; Santos, Thiago Sousa; Wu, Ning; Baweja, Archit; Lee, Ki Suh; Wang, Yao; Gushchin, Andrey; Are, Sakethnath | The Mode Group | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Dec 14, 2020 Reel 54637, frame 251 | The Mode Group | Vmware, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Apr 15, 2024 Reel 67102, frame 395 | Vmware, Inc. | Vmware LLC | Change of Name |
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What's changing
Jan 2037
Term ends Jan 31, 2037. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Citations
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later US patents cite this one
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