Lapsed May 27, 2026 on the fee record · High confidence
20-year base term ends May 10, 2031
Third maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.
Held by Kyndryl, Inc.
Filed May 10, 2011 as application 13/104,535 · Granted May 27, 2014
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 170 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed May 27, 2026
2011
2031
Clock starts
May 10, 2011
May 10, 2011
No longer in force
May 27, 2026
May 27, 2026
Granted
May 27, 2014
May 27, 2014
Term would have run to
Oct 27, 2031
Oct 27, 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
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.
3
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 27, 2031: its 20-year base term plus 170 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.
| Step | Input | Date after this step | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Base term, 20 years from filing | Clock starts May 10, 2011, when this application, 13/104,535, was filed | May 10, 2031 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +170 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Oct 27, 2031 | 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 | 2 of 3 maintenance fees paid | lapsed May 27, 2026 | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | May 27, 2026 | High confidence |
This family
| US 8,738,908 | this patent May 2026 | May 2026 |
| Application PCT/US2012/037353 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 8,930,708 | In force May 2031 | May 2031 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 25, 2011 Reel 26337, frame 329 | Lee, Chang | Softlayer Technologies, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Nov 29, 2011 Reel 27290, frame 855 | Softlayer Technologies, Inc. | Suntrust Bank, As Collateral Agent | Security Agreement |
| Jul 8, 2013 Reel 30763, frame 666 | Suntrust Bank | Softlayer Technologies, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| Jul 5, 2021 Reel 56754, frame 340 | Software Technologies, Inc. | International Business Machines Corporation | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jul 22, 2021 Reel 56963, frame 528 | Softlayer Technologies, Inc. | International Business Machines Corporation | Corrective Assignment to Correct the Conveying Party's Name Previously Recorded at Reel: 056754 Frame: 0340. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Assignment . |
| Oct 13, 2021 Reel 57885, frame 644 | International Business Machines Corporation | Kyndryl, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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Note
The 170 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
16
later US patents cite this one
That is above the median of utility patents granted in 2014 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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