Also listed on Springpath LLC, an earlier holder on the record. The recorded assignments below show how it moved.
Term ends May 6, 2034 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Dec 19, 2033
Held by Cisco Technology, Inc.
Filed Dec 19, 2013 as application 14/135,485 · Granted Dec 13, 2016
Base term plus 138 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2013
2034
Clock starts
Dec 19, 2013
Dec 19, 2013
Term ends
May 6, 2034
May 6, 2034
Granted
Dec 13, 2016
Dec 13, 2016
base term
patent term adjustment
fee events
Updated Nov 15, 2026 · includes USPTO assignment & status data published Nov 15, 2026 and grant & fee data published Nov 10, 2026 (weekly) · how we know
138
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 138 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
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| Step | Input | Date after this step | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Base term, 20 years from filing | Clock starts Dec 19, 2013, when this application, 14/135,485, was filed | Dec 19, 2033 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +138 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | May 6, 2034 | 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 | May 6, 2034 | High confidence |
This family
| US 9,521,198 | this patent May 2034 | May 2034 |
| US 9,965,203 | In force Dec 2033 | Dec 2033 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 23, 2015 Reel 36013, frame 770 | Storvisor, Inc. | Springpath, Inc. | Change of Name |
| Jan 14, 2016 Reel 37496, frame 51 | Agarwala, Sandip; Chaturvedi, Abhishek; Gaonkar, Shravan; Mahalingam, Mallikarjunan; Reddy, Sazzala; Shah, Smit; Shaikh, Faraz; Vegulla, Praveen; Yadappanavar, Krishna; Zabarsky, Jeffrey A. | Storvisor, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Oct 16, 2017 Reel 44217, frame 209 | Springpath, Inc. | Springpath LLC | Change of Name |
| Jul 20, 2018 Reel 46418, frame 363 | Springpath LLC | Cisco Technology, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
May 2034
Term ends May 6, 2034. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 138 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
98
later US patents cite this one
That is top 5% 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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