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Distributed Package Management Using Meta-Scheduling

US 10,509,637 In force
OverviewFamilyAssignmentsSources & methods
Collateral for a security interest recorded Feb 13, 2025 (Bank of America, N.A.).

Term ends Dec 26, 2035 · High confidence

Filed Dec 1, 2017 as application 15/829,740 · Granted Dec 17, 2019
Base term plus 192 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
20 years from filing
2015 2035
Clock starts
Nov 3, 2015
Term ends
Dec 26, 2035
Granted
Dec 17, 2019
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
192
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
Capped
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 9,880,825.
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.
6
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 192 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. 1 of 3 maintenance fees is 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 Nov 3, 2015, when application 14/931,714, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Dec 1, 2017)Nov 3, 2035High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+192 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordMay 13, 2036High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capDisclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 9,880,825)capped to Dec 26, 2035High confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events1 of 3 maintenance fees paidIn forceHigh confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderDec 26, 2035High confidence

This family

US 9,880,825In force
Dec 2035
Dec 2035
US 10,509,637this patent
Dec 2035
Dec 2035
US 11,487,622In force
no later than Nov 2036
no later than Nov 2036
US 11,977,449In force
no later than Nov 2035
no later than Nov 2035
US 12,332,745In force
Nov 2035
Nov 2035
Application 19/239,728Pending
not computed
not computed
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
Dec 5, 2023
Reel 65771, frame 424
D2IQ, Inc.Nutanix, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Dec 8, 2023
Reel 65836, frame 558
D2IQ (Assignment for the Benefit of Creditors), LLC.Nutanix, Inc.Corrective Assignment to Correct the Name of the Assignor. Previously Recorded on Reel 065771 Frame 0424. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Assignment.
Dec 19, 2023
Reel 65909, frame 748
D2IQ, Inc.D2IQ (Assignment for the Benefit of Creditors), LLCAssignment of Assignor's 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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Maintenance fee events come from USPTO's own fee records. Its fee lookup asks for the patent number and the application number.

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