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Logical Sector Mapping in a Flash Storage Array

US 8,788,788 Lapsed on the fee record
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Lapsed Jul 22, 2022 on the fee record · High confidence

Second maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.

Filed Aug 11, 2011 as application 13/208,094 · Granted Jul 22, 2014
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 350 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed Jul 22, 2022
2011 2032
Clock starts
Aug 11, 2011
No longer in force
Jul 22, 2022
Granted
Jul 22, 2014
Term would have run to
Jul 26, 2032
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
350
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.
35
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 Jul 26, 2032: its 20-year base term plus 350 days of term adjustment for prosecution delay. Confidence: High. from the record

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Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Aug 11, 2011, when this application, 13/208,094, was filedAug 11, 2031High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+350 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordJul 26, 2032High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events1 of 3 maintenance fees paidlapsed Jul 22, 2022High confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderJul 22, 2022High confidence

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US 8,788,788this patent
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US 8,806,160In force
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US 8,793,467In force
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US 8,930,307In force
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US 8,589,640In force
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US 8,645,664In force
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US 8,527,544Lapsed on the fee record
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Application PCT/US2012/050490PCT 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.
RecordedAssignorAssigneeConveyance
Aug 15, 2011
Reel 26748, frame 121
Colgrove, John; Hayes, John; Miller, Ethan; Wang, FengPure Storage, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

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