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US 8,688,630 Lapsed on the fee record
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Lapsed Apr 1, 2026 on the fee record · High confidence

Third maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.

Filed Jul 6, 2011 as application 13/125,524 · Granted Apr 1, 2014
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 117 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed Apr 1, 2026
2009 2030
Clock starts
Oct 21, 2009
No longer in force
Apr 1, 2026
Granted
Apr 1, 2014
Term would have run to
Feb 15, 2030
base term patent term adjustment after the term ends 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
117
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
2 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.
8
Family applications on record here
Applications sharing this one's continuity chain whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.

Its term would have run to Feb 15, 2030: its 20-year base term plus 117 days of term adjustment for prosecution delay. 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 Oct 21, 2009, when application PCT/EP2009/063796, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jul 6, 2011)Oct 21, 2029High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+117 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordFeb 15, 2030High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events2 of 3 maintenance fees paidlapsed Apr 1, 2026High confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderApr 1, 2026High confidence

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US 10,650,022In force
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US 11,907,256In force
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7 of 8 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
Jul 7, 2011
Reel 26555, frame 265
Bernbo, Stefan; Melander, Christian; Persson, Roger; Petersson, GustavIlt Innovations ABAssignment of Assignor's Interest
Sep 27, 2013
Reel 31313, frame 804
Ilt Innovations ABCompuverde ABChange of Name
Aug 26, 2020
Reel 53867, frame 581
Pure Storage, Inc.Barclays Bank PLC as Administrative AgentSecurity Interest
Jun 11, 2025
Reel 71558, frame 523
Barclays Bank PLC, as Administrative AgentPure Storage, Inc.Termination and Release of Security Interest in Patent Rights

Sources

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