Also listed on Trusteer Ltd., an earlier holder on the record. The recorded assignments below show how it moved.
Term ends Jan 26, 2031 · Medium confidence
20-year base term ends Aug 11, 2028
Why Medium: A parent in the chain could not be resolved.
Filed May 22, 2009 as application 12/471,193 · Granted Jul 14, 2015
USPTO first gave this application the numbers US 8,813,224 and US 8,863,281 and withdrew each before it issued. Those numbers now lead here.
Base term plus 898 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2008
2031
Clock starts
Aug 11, 2008
Aug 11, 2008
Term ends
Jan 26, 2031
Jan 26, 2031
Granted
Jul 14, 2015
Jul 14, 2015
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
898
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
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.
3
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 898 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 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 Aug 11, 2008, when application 12/189,444, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed May 22, 2009); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row) | Aug 11, 2028 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | A parent in the chain could not be resolved | dated from this application's own claim | Medium confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +898 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jan 26, 2031 | 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 | 3 of 3 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Jan 26, 2031 | Medium confidence |
This family
| US 8,732,794 | Lapsed on the fee record May 2026 | May 2026 |
| US 9,081,956 | this patent Jan 2031 | Jan 2031 |
| US 9,218,487 | Lapsed on the fee record Dec 2023 | Dec 2023 |
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 12, 2009 Reel 22821, frame 169 | Klein, Amit; Ben-haim, Eldan; Izmerly, Oleg; Regev, Shmuel; Boodaei, Michael | Trusteer Ltd. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jan 23, 2017 Reel 41060, frame 411 | Trusteer, Ltd. | International Business Machines Corporation | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Jan 2031
Term ends Jan 26, 2031. No further fees fall due before then
Note
The 898 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
17
later US patents cite this one
That is top 25% of utility patents granted in 2015 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
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In force means the term is running and no lapse is on record. It is not a finding that the patent is valid.