Collateral for a security interest recorded Sep 30, 2022 (Wilmington Trust, National Association).

Term ended Dec 11, 2025 · High confidence

Computed 20-year base term

Held by Citrix Systems, Inc.

Filed Apr 26, 2005 as application 11/114,943 · Granted Apr 15, 2008

Base term plus 229 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)

Today

20 years from filing

Term ended Dec 11, 2025

2005 2026

Clock starts
Apr 26, 2005

Term ended
Dec 11, 2025

Granted
Apr 15, 2008

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

229

Days of term adjustment

Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.

None

Terminal disclaimer

No disclaimer on this record.

3 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.

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 229 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. All three maintenance fees were paid, so no fee lapse ended it. 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 Apr 26, 2005, when this application, 11/114,943, was filed	Apr 26, 2025	High confidence
Continuity chain	Every parent in the chain resolved	no change	High confidence
Patent term adjustment	+229 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record	Dec 11, 2025	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	3 of 3 maintenance fees paid	term ended	High confidence
Computed term end	The steps above, in order	Dec 11, 2025	High confidence

This family

US 7,584,222	Term ended Nov 2026	Nov 2026
US 7,360,030	this patent Dec 2025	Dec 2025
US 7,490,089	In force Jan 2027	Jan 2027
US 8,073,881	Lapsed on the fee record Dec 2023	Dec 2023
US 8,364,726	Lapsed on the fee record Jan 2025	Jan 2025
US 9,165,157	Term ended Sep 2025	Sep 2025
Application 14/168,225	Abandoned 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.

Recorded	Assignor	Assignee	Conveyance
Dec 4, 2006 Reel 18658, frame 498	Georgiev, Ivan I.	Sanboic, Inc.	Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Jun 2, 2015 Reel 35760, frame 797	Sanbolic, LLC	Citrix Systems, Inc.	Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Jun 2, 2015 Reel 35807, frame 17	Sanbolic, Inc.	Sanbolic, LLC	Change of Name
Sep 30, 2022 Reel 62079, frame 1	Citrix Systems, Inc.	Wilmington Trust, National Association	Security Interest
Oct 7, 2022 Reel 62112, frame 262	Tibco Software Inc.; Citrix Systems, Inc.	Bank of America, N.A., as Collateral Agent	Patent Security Agreement
Oct 7, 2022 Reel 62113, frame 1	Tibco Software Inc.; Citrix Systems, Inc.	Goldman Sachs Bank USA, as Collateral Agent	Second Lien Patent Security Agreement
Oct 7, 2022 Reel 62113, frame 470	Tibco Software Inc.; Citrix Systems, Inc.	Wilmington Trust, National Association, as Notes Collateral Agent	Patent Security Agreement
Apr 14, 2023 Reel 63339, frame 525	Goldman Sachs Bank USA, as Collateral Agent	Citrix Systems, Inc.; Cloud Software Group, Inc. (F/K/A Tibco Software Inc.)	Release and Reassignment of Security Interest in Patent (Reel/Frame 062113/0001)
Apr 14, 2023 Reel 63340, frame 164	Cloud Software Group, Inc. (F/K/A Tibco Software Inc.); Citrix Systems, Inc.	Wilmington Trust, National Association, as Notes Collateral Agent	Patent Security Agreement
Apr 14, 2023 reel/frame not recorded	Goldman Sachs Bank USA, as Collateral Agent	Citrix Systems, Inc.	Release and Reassignment of Security Interest in Patent (Reel/Frame 062113/0001)
Apr 14, 2023 reel/frame not recorded	Goldman Sachs Bank USA, as Collateral Agent	Cloud Software Group, Inc. (F/K/A Tibco Software Inc.)	Release and Reassignment of Security Interest in Patent (Reel/Frame 062113/0001)
May 24, 2024 Reel 67662, frame 568	Cloud Software Group, Inc. (F/K/A Tibco Software Inc.); Citrix Systems, Inc.	Wilmington Trust, National Association, as Notes Collateral Agent	Security Interest
Aug 15, 2025 Reel 72488, frame 172	Cloud Software Group, Inc.; Citrix Systems, Inc.	Wilmington Trust, National Association, as Notes Collateral Agent	Patent Security Agreement

Sources

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Note

The 229 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us

Citations

later US patents cite this one

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