Collateral for a security interest recorded Dec 23, 2025 (Alter Domus (US) LLC).
Lapsed May 20, 2026 on the fee record · High confidence
20-year base term ended Mar 31, 2026
Third maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.
Held by Verint Americas Inc.
Filed Apr 28, 2010 as application 12/769,552 · Granted May 20, 2014
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 340 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed May 20, 2026
2006
2027
Clock starts
Mar 31, 2006
Mar 31, 2006
No longer in force
May 20, 2026
May 20, 2026
Granted
May 20, 2014
May 20, 2014
Term would have run to
Mar 6, 2027
Mar 6, 2027
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
340
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 8,204,056, to Mar 6, 2027. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.
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.
9
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 Mar 6, 2027: its 20-year base term plus 340 days of term adjustment for prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer is resolved from the filed document, and it ends no earlier than this term, so it shortens nothing. 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 Mar 31, 2006, when application 11/395,759, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Apr 28, 2010) | Mar 31, 2026 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +340 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Mar 6, 2027 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 8,204,056) | resolves to Mar 6, 2027, no earlier than this term, so no change | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 2 of 3 maintenance fees paid | lapsed May 20, 2026 | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | May 20, 2026 | High 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 | In force 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 | this patent 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| Dec 17, 2013 Reel 31802, frame 640 | Dong, Thomas Z.; Williams, Jamie | Witness Systems, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Dec 17, 2013 Reel 31835, frame 478 | Witness Systems, Inc. | Verint Americas Inc. | Change of Name |
| 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 |
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Note
The 340 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Terminal disclaimer
A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 8,204,056, ends no earlier than this term, so it caps nothing.
Citations
1
later US patent cites this one
That is below the median of utility patents granted in 2014 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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