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US 8,379,835 Term ended
OverviewFamilyAssignmentsSources & methods
Collateral for a security interest recorded Dec 23, 2025 (Alter Domus (US) LLC).

Term ended Oct 26, 2026 · High confidence

Filed Apr 28, 2010 as application 12/769,545 · Granted Feb 19, 2013
Base term plus 209 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
20 years from filing
Term ended Oct 26, 2026
2006 2026
Clock starts
Mar 31, 2006
Term ended
Oct 26, 2026
Granted
Feb 19, 2013
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
209
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
No effect
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 8,130,938, to Oct 26, 2026. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.
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 209 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer is resolved from the filed document, and it ends no earlier than this term, so it shortens nothing. All three maintenance fees were paid, so no fee lapse ended it. 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.
StepInputDate after this stepConfidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock 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 Apr 28, 2010)Mar 31, 2026High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+209 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordOct 26, 2026High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capDisclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 8,130,938)resolves to Oct 26, 2026, no earlier than this term, so no changeHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events3 of 3 maintenance fees paidterm endedHigh confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderOct 26, 2026High confidence

This family

US 8,204,056In force
Jun 2028
Jun 2028
US 8,594,313In force
Jun 2027
Jun 2027
US 7,680,264In force
Jan 2029
Jan 2029
US 8,130,938In force
Jun 2027
Jun 2027
US 8,000,465In force
Jun 2027
Jun 2027
Application 11/692,983Abandoned
not computed
not computed
US 8,730,959Lapsed on the fee record
May 2026
May 2026
US 8,379,835this patent
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.
RecordedAssignorAssigneeConveyance
Dec 17, 2013
Reel 31802, frame 46
Williams, Jamie Richard; Dong, Thomas Z.Witness Systems, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Dec 17, 2013
Reel 31835, frame 433
Witness Systems, Inc.Verint Americas Inc.Change of Name
Jul 21, 2017
Reel 43293, frame 567
Verint Americas Inc.JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as Collateral AgentGrant of Security Interest in Patent Rights
Nov 26, 2025
Reel 73796, frame 639
JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as Collateral AgentVerint 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 AgentSecurity Interest

Sources

Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO

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