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Architecture for Managing I/O and Storage for a Virtualization Environment

US 8,601,473 In force
OverviewFamilyAssignmentsSources & methods
Collateral for a security interest recorded Feb 13, 2025 (Bank of America, N.A.).

Term ends Jan 11, 2032 · High confidence

Filed Aug 10, 2011 as application 13/207,345 · Granted Dec 3, 2013
Base term plus 154 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
20 years from filing
2011 2032
Clock starts
Aug 10, 2011
Term ends
Jan 11, 2032
Granted
Dec 3, 2013
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
154
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
3 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.
15
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 154 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. All three maintenance fees are recorded paid; no more fees are due. 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.
StepInputDate after this stepConfidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Aug 10, 2011, when this application, 13/207,345, was filedAug 10, 2031High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+154 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordJan 11, 2032High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events3 of 3 maintenance fees paidIn forceHigh confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderJan 11, 2032High confidence

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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
Oct 24, 2011
Reel 27110, frame 889
Aron, Mohit; Pandey, Dheeraj; Singh, AjeetNutanix, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Apr 15, 2016
Reel 38440, frame 712
Nutanix, Inc.Goldman Sachs Specialty Lending Group, L.P., as AgentSecurity Interest
Sep 28, 2016
Reel 40168, frame 586
Goldman Sachs Specialty Lending Group, L.P., as AgentNutanix, Inc.Release of Security Interest
Feb 13, 2025
Reel 70206, frame 463
Nutanix, Inc.Bank of America, N.A., as Collateral AgentSecurity Interest

Sources

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

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