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Term ends Apr 18, 2034 · High confidence

Held by Ovh US LLC
Filed Oct 30, 2013 as application 14/067,015 · Granted Apr 5, 2016
Base term plus 170 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
20 years from filing
2013 2034
Clock starts
Oct 30, 2013
Term ends
Apr 18, 2034
Granted
Apr 5, 2016
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
170
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.
22
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 170 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 2 of 3 maintenance fees are paid so far. 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 30, 2013, when this application, 14/067,015, was filedOct 30, 2033High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+170 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordApr 18, 2034High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events2 of 3 maintenance fees paidIn forceHigh confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderApr 18, 2034High 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
Mar 24, 2014
Reel 32510, frame 261
Smith, Trevor; Kamath, Ashwin; Bodapatti, GaneshMangstor, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Jun 30, 2016
Reel 39059, frame 7
Mangstor, Inc.Western Alliance BankSecurity Interest
Jul 25, 2018
Reel 46628, frame 576
Mangstor, Inc.Exten Technologies, Inc.Change of Name
Aug 8, 2020
Reel 53438, frame 968
Western Alliance BankExten Technologies, Inc.Release of Security Interest
Aug 12, 2020
Reel 53480, frame 993
Western Alliance BankExten Technologies, Inc.Corrective Assignment to Correct the Mistaken Inclusion of Patent Number 9141527 Previously Recorded on Reel 053438 Frame 0968. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Release of Security Interest.
Oct 8, 2020
Reel 54013, frame 948
Exten Technologies, Inc.Ovh US LLCAssignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

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

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