Also listed on Splunk Inc, an earlier holder on the record. The recorded assignments below show how it moved.
Term ends Dec 5, 2036 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Sep 26, 2036
Held by Cisco Technology, Inc.
Filed Mar 9, 2021 as application 17/196,577 · Granted Apr 25, 2023
Base term plus 134 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
2016
2036
Clock starts
Sep 26, 2016
Sep 26, 2016
Term ends
Dec 5, 2036
Dec 5, 2036
Granted
Apr 25, 2023
Apr 25, 2023
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
134
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
Capped
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 11,023,463.
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.
94
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 134 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. 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 Sep 26, 2016, when application 15/276,717, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Mar 9, 2021) | Sep 26, 2036 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +134 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Feb 7, 2037 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 11,023,463) | capped to Dec 5, 2036 | 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 | Dec 5, 2036 | High confidence |
This family
| US 10,353,965 | In force Aug 2037 | Aug 2037 |
| US 10,474,723 | In force Mar 2038 | Mar 2038 |
| US 10,599,723 | In force Aug 2038 | Aug 2038 |
| US 10,592,562 | In force Sep 2038 | Sep 2038 |
| US 10,592,563 | In force Aug 2038 | Aug 2038 |
| US 10,592,561 | In force Sep 2038 | Sep 2038 |
| US 10,599,724 | In force Aug 2038 | Aug 2038 |
| US 10,585,951 | In force Aug 2038 | Aug 2038 |
8 of 94 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 22, 2025 Reel 72170, frame 599 | Splunk Inc. | Splunk LLC | Change of Name |
| Jul 22, 2025 Reel 72173, frame 58 | Splunk LLC | Cisco Technology, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Aug 4, 2025 Reel 71926, frame 835 | Pal, Sourav; Bhattacharjee, Arindam | Splunk Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
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What's changing
Dec 2036
Term ends Dec 5, 2036. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 134 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Disclaimer cap
This term is capped by a terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 11,023,463.
Citations
63
later US patents cite this one
That is top 1% of utility patents granted in 2023 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
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In force means the term is running and no lapse is on record. It is not a finding that the patent is valid.