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System and Method for Selecting Virtual Appliances in Communications with Virtual Private Cloud Networks

US 11,788,924 In force, term unresolved
OverviewFamilyAssignmentsSources & methods

Term ends no later than Aug 30, 2035 · Low confidence

In force on USPTO's status record and by its fee record. A terminal disclaimer on file may shorten this term, possibly to a date already past; its reference document is unresolved, so the date above is an upper bound and no earlier date is guessed.

Filed Aug 23, 2021 as application 17/409,668 · Granted Oct 17, 2023
Base term plus 235 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
20 years from filing
2015 2035
Clock starts
Jan 7, 2015
Ends no later than
Aug 30, 2035
Granted
Oct 17, 2023
base term patent term adjustment 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
235
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
Unresolved
Terminal disclaimer
On file, reference document not resolved, so the date above is an upper bound. We do not guess the cap.
0 of 2
Maintenance fees paid
Two maintenance fees can end this term early, the ones due 3.5 and 7.5 years from grant; the third one's grace period runs past the term end. This counts the ones the record shows paid.
6
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 235 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer is on file with no resolved reference, so no cap is applied and none is guessed. 0 of 2 maintenance fees are paid so far. Confidence: Low. 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.
StepInputDate after this stepConfidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Jan 7, 2015, when application 14/591,859, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Aug 23, 2021); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row)Jan 7, 2035High confidence
Continuity chainA parent in the chain could not be resolveddated from this application's own claimMedium confidence
Patent term adjustment+235 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordAug 30, 2035High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capDisclaimer on file (approved), reference document not resolvedno cap applied, and none guessedMedium confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events0 of 2 maintenance fees paidIn forceHigh confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderno later than Aug 30, 2035Low confidence

This family

US 9,825,906In force
May 2035
May 2035
US 10,148,616In force
no later than Jan 2035
no later than Jan 2035
US 11,099,099In force
Jan 2035
Jan 2035
US 11,788,924this patent
no later than Aug 2035
no later than Aug 2035
US 12,113,767In force
no later than Jan 2035
no later than Jan 2035
Application 18/908,784Pending
not computed
not computed
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.
RecordedAssignorAssigneeConveyance
Sep 17, 2021
Reel 57522, frame 15
Wei, Xiaobo SherryAviatrix Systems, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO

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