Lapsed Jun 9, 2023 on the fee record · High confidence
20-year base term ends Jan 26, 2032
Second maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.
Filed Sep 18, 2012 as application 13/622,026 · Granted Jun 9, 2015
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 284 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed Jun 9, 2023
2012
2032
Clock starts
Jan 26, 2012
Jan 26, 2012
No longer in force
Jun 9, 2023
Jun 9, 2023
Granted
Jun 9, 2015
Jun 9, 2015
Term would have run to
Nov 5, 2032
Nov 5, 2032
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
284
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
1 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.
3
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 Nov 5, 2032: its 20-year base term plus 284 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 Jan 26, 2012, when application 13/358,742, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Sep 18, 2012) | Jan 26, 2032 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +284 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Nov 5, 2032 | 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 | 1 of 3 maintenance fees paid | lapsed Jun 9, 2023 | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Jun 9, 2023 | High confidence |
This family
| US 8,631,209 | In force Jun 2032 | Jun 2032 |
| US 9,052,824 | this patent Jun 2023 | Jun 2023 |
| US 9,183,212 | Lapsed on the fee record Nov 2023 | Nov 2023 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 26, 2012 Reel 29027, frame 675 | Serlet, Bertrand; Bodamer, Roger; Altieri, Emanuele | Upthere, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Aug 31, 2017 Reel 43466, frame 983 | Upthere, Inc. | Western Digital Technologies, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Sep 14, 2017 Reel 43865, frame 761 | Upthere, Inc. | Western Digital Technologies, Inc. | Corrective Assignment to Correct the Assignee Address Previously Recorded at Reel: 043466 Frame: 0983. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Assignment . |
| Feb 6, 2020 Reel 52915, frame 566 | Western Digital Technologies, Inc. | JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as Agent | Security Interest |
| Feb 8, 2022 Reel 59127, frame 1 | Jpmorgan Chase Bank, N.a. | Western Digital Technologies, Inc. | Release of Security Interest at Reel 052915 Frame 0566 |
Sources
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Note
The 284 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
64
later US patents cite this one
That is top 10% of utility patents granted in 2015 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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