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Disk array controller capable of detecting and correcting for unexpected disk drive power-on-reset events

US 8,458,495 Lapsed on the fee record
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Lapsed Jun 4, 2017 on the fee record · From the USPTO record

First maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.

Named at grant Summit Data Systems LLC · find this owner
Filed Aug 5, 2009 as application 12/536,405 · Granted Jun 4, 2013
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 784 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed Jun 4, 2017
2004 2026
Clock starts
Jul 28, 2004
No longer in force
Jun 4, 2017
Granted
Jun 4, 2013
Term would have run to
Sep 20, 2026
base term patent term adjustment after the term ends 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
784
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
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.

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Step Input Date after this step Confidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Jul 28, 2004, when the earliest non-provisional application in its chain was filed (this one was filed Aug 5, 2009)Jul 28, 2024High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+784 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordSep 20, 2026High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events0 of 3 maintenance fees paidlapsed Jun 4, 2017High confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderJun 4, 2017From the USPTO record

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