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Commissioning and Decommissioning Metadata Nodes in a Running Distributed Data Storage System

US 12,063,270 In force, term unresolved
OverviewFamilyAssignmentsSources & methods
Collateral for a security interest recorded Apr 16, 2025 (JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.).

Term ends no later than Sep 2, 2041 · Medium 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 Mar 30, 2023 as application 18/128,499 · Granted Aug 13, 2024
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
20 years from filing
2021 2041
Clock starts
Sep 2, 2021
Ends no later than
Sep 2, 2041
Granted
Aug 13, 2024
base term 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.
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 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.
12
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. A terminal disclaimer is on file with no resolved reference, so no cap is applied and none is guessed. 0 of 3 maintenance fees are 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.
StepInputDate after this stepConfidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Sep 2, 2021, when application 17/465,683, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Mar 30, 2023)Sep 2, 2041High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustmentNone on fileno changeHigh 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 3 maintenance fees paidIn forceHigh confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderno later than Sep 2, 2041Medium confidence

This family

US 11,308,316In force
Sep 2041
Sep 2041
US 11,647,075In force
Sep 2041
Sep 2041
US 11,804,058In force
Sep 2041
Sep 2041
US 12,063,270this patent
no later than Sep 2041
no later than Sep 2041
US 12,309,223In force
Sep 2041
Sep 2041
Application 18/688,639Pending
not computed
not computed
US 12,294,622In force
Sep 2041
Sep 2041
Application 19/171,471Pending
not computed
not computed
8 of 12 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.
RecordedAssignorAssigneeConveyance
Apr 12, 2023
Reel 63294, frame 222
Camargos, Lasaro; Jain, Deepak; Lakshman, Avinash; Naik, Bharat PundalikCommVault Systems, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Apr 16, 2025
Reel 70864, frame 344
CommVault Systems, Inc.JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as Administrative AgentSupplemental Confirmatory Grant of Security Interest in United States Patents

Sources

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

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