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

US 12,294,622 In force
OverviewFamilyAssignmentsSources & methods
Collateral for a security interest recorded Apr 16, 2025 (JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.).

Term ends Sep 2, 2041 · Medium confidence

Why Medium: The disclaimer's references carry disclaimers of their own not yet read (US 12,063,270), so the cap could be lower.

Filed May 3, 2024 as application 18/654,088 · Granted May 6, 2025
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
20 years from filing
2021 2041
Clock starts
Sep 2, 2021
Term ends
Sep 2, 2041
Granted
May 6, 2025
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.
No effect
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 11,570,243, US 11,647,075, US 12,063,270, to Sep 2, 2041. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.
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 resolved from the filed document, and it ends no earlier than this term, so it shortens nothing. 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 May 3, 2024)Sep 2, 2041High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustmentNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Terminal disclaimer capDisclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 11,570,243, US 11,647,075, US 12,063,270)resolves to Sep 2, 2041, no earlier than this term, so no changeMedium confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events0 of 3 maintenance fees paidIn forceHigh confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderSep 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 12,063,270In force
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 12,294,622this patent
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
Jun 6, 2024
Reel 67636, frame 335
Camargos, Lasaro; Naik, Bharat Pundalik; Lakshman, Avinash; Jain, DeepakCommVault 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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