Collateral for a security interest recorded Dec 23, 2025 (Alter Domus (US) LLC).
Term ends Jun 8, 2027 · Medium confidence
20-year base term ended Mar 31, 2026
Why Medium: The disclaimer's references carry disclaimers of their own not yet read (US 7,899,178), so the cap could be lower.
Held by Verint Americas Inc.
Filed Sep 29, 2006 as application 11/540,902 · Granted Mar 6, 2012
Base term plus 1359 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
2006
2027
Clock starts
Mar 31, 2006
Mar 31, 2006
Term ends
Jun 8, 2027
Jun 8, 2027
Granted
Mar 6, 2012
Mar 6, 2012
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
1,359
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
Capped
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 7,899,178, US 8,000,465.
3 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.
9
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 1359 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. All three maintenance fees are recorded paid; no more fees are due. Confidence: Medium. 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 Mar 31, 2006, when applications 11/394,410, 11/395,350 and 11/395,759, the earliest non-provisional applications in its chain, were filed (this one was filed Sep 29, 2006) | Mar 31, 2026 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +1359 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Dec 19, 2029 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 7,899,178, US 8,000,465) | capped to Jun 8, 2027 | Medium confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 3 of 3 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Jun 8, 2027 | Medium confidence |
This family
| US 8,204,056 | In force Jun 2028 | Jun 2028 |
| US 8,594,313 | In force Jun 2027 | Jun 2027 |
| US 7,680,264 | In force Jan 2029 | Jan 2029 |
| US 8,130,938 | this patent Jun 2027 | Jun 2027 |
| US 8,000,465 | In force Jun 2027 | Jun 2027 |
| Application 11/692,983 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 8,730,959 | Lapsed on the fee record May 2026 | May 2026 |
| US 8,379,835 | Term ended Oct 2026 | Oct 2026 |
8 of 9 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.
| Recorded | Assignor | Assignee | Conveyance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 18, 2006 Reel 18646, frame 59 | Williams, Jamie Richard; Dong, Thomas Z.; Coleman, Mark Edmund | Witness Systems, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| May 2, 2011 Reel 26207, frame 203 | Verint Americas Inc. | Credit Suisse AG | Security Agreement |
| Mar 29, 2013 Reel 30112, frame 585 | Witness Systems, Inc. | Verint Americas Inc. | Change of Name |
| Oct 21, 2013 Reel 31448, frame 373 | Credit Suisse AG, Cayman Islands Branch, as Collateral Agent | Verint Americas Inc.; Verint Systems Inc.; Verint Video Solutions Inc. | Release of Security Interest in Patent Rights |
| Oct 21, 2013 Reel 31465, frame 450 | Verint Americas Inc. | Credit Suisse AG, Cayman Islands Branch, as Collateral Agent | Grant of Security Interest in Patent Rights |
| Oct 21, 2013 reel/frame not recorded | Credit Suisse AG, Cayman Islands Branch, as Collateral Agent | Verint Americas Inc. | Release of Security Interest in Patent Rights |
| Oct 21, 2013 reel/frame not recorded | Credit Suisse AG, Cayman Islands Branch, as Collateral Agent | Verint Systems Inc. | Release of Security Interest in Patent Rights |
| Oct 21, 2013 reel/frame not recorded | Credit Suisse AG, Cayman Islands Branch, as Collateral Agent | Verint Video Solutions Inc. | Release of Security Interest in Patent Rights |
| Jun 30, 2017 Reel 43066, frame 473 | Credit Suisse AG, Cayman Islands Branch | Verint Americas Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| Jul 21, 2017 Reel 43293, frame 567 | Verint Americas Inc. | JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as Collateral Agent | Grant of Security Interest in Patent Rights |
| Nov 26, 2025 Reel 73796, frame 639 | JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as Collateral Agent | Verint Americas Inc. | Release of Security Interest in Patents Previously Recorded at Reel/Frame (043293/0567) |
| Dec 23, 2025 Reel 74034, frame 292 | Verint Americas Inc. | Alter Domus (US) LLC, as Collateral Agent | Security Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Jun 2027
Term ends Jun 8, 2027. No further fees fall due before then
Note
The 1359 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Disclaimer cap
This term is capped by a terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 7,899,178, US 8,000,465.
Citations
24
later US patents cite this one
That is top 25% of utility patents granted in 2012 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
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