Term ends Jul 27, 2030 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Oct 20, 2026
Held by Vmware LLC
Filed Oct 20, 2006 as application 11/584,178 · Granted Mar 1, 2016
Base term plus 1376 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2006
2030
Clock starts
Oct 20, 2006
Oct 20, 2006
Term ends
Jul 27, 2030
Jul 27, 2030
Granted
Mar 1, 2016
Mar 1, 2016
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
1,376
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.
2
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 1376 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 2 of 3 maintenance fees are paid so far. 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 20, 2006, when this application, 11/584,178, was filed | Oct 20, 2026 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +1376 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jul 27, 2030 | 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 | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Jul 27, 2030 | High confidence |
This family
| US 9,274,974 | this patent Jul 2030 | Jul 2030 |
| US 10,241,819 | In force Nov 2026 | Nov 2026 |
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, 2006 Reel 18452, frame 140 | Chen, Xiaoxin; Walspurger, Carl A.; Subrahmanyam, Pratap | Vmware, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Apr 15, 2024 Reel 67102, frame 395 | Vmware, Inc. | Vmware LLC | Change of Name |
Sources
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What's changing
Jul 2030
Term ends Jul 27, 2030. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 1376 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
43
later US patents cite this one
That is top 10% of utility patents granted in 2016 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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