Lapsed Jun 24, 2026 on the fee record · High confidence
20-year base term ends Jun 26, 2029
Third maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.
Filed Aug 12, 2009 as application 12/540,273 · Granted Jun 24, 2014
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 733 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed Jun 24, 2026
2009
2031
Clock starts
Jun 26, 2009
Jun 26, 2009
No longer in force
Jun 24, 2026
Jun 24, 2026
Granted
Jun 24, 2014
Jun 24, 2014
Term would have run to
Jun 29, 2031
Jun 29, 2031
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
733
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.
25
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 Jun 29, 2031: its 20-year base term plus 733 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.
| Step | Input | Date after this step | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Base term, 20 years from filing | Clock starts Jun 26, 2009, when application 12/492,890, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Aug 12, 2009) | Jun 26, 2029 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +733 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jun 29, 2031 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | None on record | no cap applied | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 2 of 3 maintenance fees paid | lapsed Jun 24, 2026 | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Jun 24, 2026 | High confidence |
This family
| US 8,914,511 | In force Jun 2031 | Jun 2031 |
| US 8,396,807 | In force May 2031 | May 2031 |
| US 8,661,131 | In force Jan 2032 | Jan 2032 |
| US 8,433,801 | In force Jun 2030 | Jun 2030 |
| US 8,762,531 | this patent Jun 2026 | Jun 2026 |
| US 9,852,011 | In force May 2030 | May 2030 |
| US 9,830,566 | Lapsed on the fee record Nov 2025 | Nov 2025 |
| US 9,888,067 | Surrendered on reissue no later than Aug 2021 | no later than Aug 2021 |
8 of 25 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.
| Recorded | Assignor | Assignee | Conveyance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 8, 2010 Reel 23910, frame 709 | Yemini, Yechiam; Kliger, Shmuel; Florissi, Danilo; Benjamin, Shai; Rabover, Yuri | Vmturbo, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Mar 18, 2010 Reel 24101, frame 789 | Yemini, Yechiam; Kliger, Shmuel; Florissi, Danilo; Benjamin, Shai; Rabover, Yuri | Vmturbo, Inc. | Corrective Assignment to Correct the Company Address Previously Recorded on Reel 023910 Frame 0709. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Assignment. |
| Sep 22, 2016 Reel 40114, frame 91 | Vmturbo, Inc. | Turbonomic, Inc. | Change of Name |
| Aug 23, 2019 Reel 50156, frame 150 | Turbonomic, Inc. | Silicon Valley Bank | Intellectual Property Security Agreement |
| Aug 23, 2019 Reel 50156, frame 161 | Turbonomic, Inc. | Silicon Valley Bank, As Administrative Agent | Intellectual Property Security Agreement |
| Jul 5, 2022 Reel 60396, frame 411 | Silicon Valley Bank | Turbonomic, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| Dec 21, 2022 Reel 62202, frame 30 | Turbonomic, Inc. | International Business Machines Corporation | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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Note
The 733 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
29
later US patents cite this one
That is top 25% of utility patents granted in 2014 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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