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US 8,645,978 Lapsed on the fee record
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Lapsed Feb 4, 2022 on the fee record · High confidence

Second maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.

Filed Sep 2, 2011 as application 13/224,415 · Granted Feb 4, 2014
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 56 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed Feb 4, 2022
2011 2031
Clock starts
Sep 2, 2011
No longer in force
Feb 4, 2022
Granted
Feb 4, 2014
Term would have run to
Oct 28, 2031
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
56
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.
7
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 Oct 28, 2031: its 20-year base term plus 56 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.
StepInputDate after this stepConfidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Sep 2, 2011, when this application, 13/224,415, was filedSep 2, 2031High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+56 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordOct 28, 2031High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events1 of 3 maintenance fees paidlapsed Feb 4, 2022High confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderFeb 4, 2022High confidence

This family

US 8,645,978this patent
Feb 2022
Feb 2022
US 9,305,012Lapsed on the fee record
Apr 2024
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US 9,965,542Lapsed on the fee record
May 2022
May 2022
US 10,430,443In force
Sep 2031
Sep 2031
US 10,769,177In force
Sep 2031
Sep 2031
US 11,372,897In force
Sep 2031
Sep 2031
Application 17/825,658Abandoned
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
Sep 2, 2011
Reel 26851, frame 365
Bernbo, Stefan; Melander, Christian; Persson, Roger; Petersson, GustavIlt Innovations ABAssignment of Assignor's Interest
Sep 26, 2013
Reel 31299, frame 35
Ilt Innovations ABCompuverde ABChange of Name
Aug 26, 2020
Reel 53867, frame 581
Pure Storage, Inc.Barclays Bank PLC as Administrative AgentSecurity Interest
Jun 11, 2025
Reel 71558, frame 523
Barclays Bank PLC, as Administrative AgentPure Storage, Inc.Termination and Release of Security Interest in Patent Rights

Sources

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

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