Term ends Jul 26, 2032 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Oct 14, 2031
Held by Pure Storage, Inc.
Filed Oct 14, 2011 as application 13/273,858 · Granted Nov 19, 2013
Base term plus 286 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2011
2032
Clock starts
Oct 14, 2011
Oct 14, 2011
Term ends
Jul 26, 2032
Jul 26, 2032
Granted
Nov 19, 2013
Nov 19, 2013
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
286
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.
35
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 286 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. All three maintenance fees are recorded paid; no more fees are due. 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 Oct 14, 2011, when this application, 13/273,858, was filed | Oct 14, 2031 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +286 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jul 26, 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 | 3 of 3 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Jul 26, 2032 | High confidence |
This family
| US 8,788,788 | Lapsed on the fee record Jul 2022 | Jul 2022 |
| US 8,806,160 | In force Nov 2032 | Nov 2032 |
| US 8,793,467 | In force Jul 2032 | Jul 2032 |
| US 8,930,307 | In force Oct 2031 | Oct 2031 |
| US 8,589,640 | this patent Jul 2032 | Jul 2032 |
| US 8,645,664 | In force Mar 2032 | Mar 2032 |
| US 8,527,544 | Lapsed on the fee record Sep 2025 | Sep 2025 |
| Application PCT/US2012/050490 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
8 of 35 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 20, 2011 Reel 27093, frame 6 | Colgrove, John; Hayes, John; Miller, Ethan; Sandvig, Cary | Pure Storage, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Apr 15, 2014 Reel 32676, frame 380 | Colgrove, John; Hayes, John; Miller, Ethan; Hasbani, Joseph S.; Sandvig, Cary | Pure Storage, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Jul 2032
Term ends Jul 26, 2032. No further fees fall due before then
Note
The 286 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
152
later US patents cite this one
That is top 5% of utility patents granted in 2013 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
Every date shows its work: the base term, any term adjustment or extension, any disclaimer cap, and the maintenance fee record, each with a confidence tier. How this record was built
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In force means the term is running and no lapse is on record. It is not a finding that the patent is valid.