Collateral for a security interest recorded Apr 1, 2025 (Société Générale).

Term ends Mar 19, 2028 · High confidence

Computed 20-year base term

Held by Forcepoint LLC

Filed Apr 16, 2015 as application 14/688,944 · Granted Nov 15, 2016

Base term, 20 years from filing

Today

20 years from filing

Term ends Mar 19, 2028

2008 2028

Clock starts
Mar 19, 2008

Term ends
Mar 19, 2028

Granted
Nov 15, 2016

base term 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

None

Term adjustment

No prosecution delay on this record.

No effect

Terminal disclaimer

Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 9,015,842, to Mar 19, 2028. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.

2 of 2

Maintenance fees paid

Two maintenance fees can end this term early, the ones due 3.5 and 7.5 years from grant; the third one's grace period runs past the term end. This counts the ones the record shows paid.

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 is its 20-year base term, with no 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. 2 of 2 maintenance fees are paid so far. 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 19, 2008, when application 12/051,579, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Apr 16, 2015)	Mar 19, 2028	High confidence
Continuity chain	Every parent in the chain resolved	no change	High confidence
Patent term adjustment	None on file	no change	High confidence
Terminal disclaimer cap	Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 9,015,842)	resolves to Mar 19, 2028, no earlier than this term, so no change	High confidence
Patent term extension	None on file	no change	High confidence
Fee events	2 of 2 maintenance fees paid	In force	High confidence
Computed term end	The steps above, in order	Mar 19, 2028	High confidence

This family

US 9,130,986	In force Feb 2030	Feb 2030
US 9,015,842	In force Oct 2030	Oct 2030
US 8,407,784	In force Mar 2030	Mar 2030
Application PCT/US2009/037435	PCT application no patent term	no patent term
US 8,959,634	In force Mar 2028	Mar 2028
US 9,495,539	this patent Mar 2028	Mar 2028
US 9,455,981	In force Mar 2028	Mar 2028

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
Mar 15, 2016 Reel 37991, frame 54	Troyansky, Lidror; Bruckner, Sharon; Hubbard, Daniel Lyle	Websense, Inc.	Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Aug 5, 2016 Reel 39590, frame 646	Websense, Inc.	Websense LLC	Change of Name
Sep 8, 2016 Reel 39951, frame 904	Websense, Inc.	Websense, LLC	Corrective Assignment to Correct the Assignee from Websense LLC to Websense, LLC Previously Recorded on Reel 039590 Frame 0646. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Change of Name.
Aug 1, 2017 Reel 43397, frame 440	Websense, LLC	Forcepoint LLC	Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Feb 12, 2018 Reel 45312, frame 43	Forcepoint LLC	Raytheon Company	Patent Security Agreement Supplement
Jan 8, 2021 Reel 55452, frame 220	Raytheon Company	Forcepoint LLC	Release of Security Interest in Patents
Jan 20, 2021 Reel 55052, frame 302	Redowl Analytics, Inc.; Forcepoint LLC	Credit Suisse AG, Cayman Islands Branch, as Collateral Agent	Patent Security Agreement
May 12, 2021 Reel 56214, frame 798	Forcepoint LLC	Forcepoint Federal Holdings LLC	Change of Name
May 19, 2021 Reel 57001, frame 57	Forcepoint Federal Holdings LLC	Forcepoint LLC	Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Apr 1, 2025 Reel 70703, frame 887	Forcepoint LLC; Bitglass, LLC	Société Générale	Security Interest
Apr 2, 2025 Reel 70706, frame 263	UBS AG, Stamford Branch	Forcepoint, LLC; Bitglass, LLC	Release of Security Interest
Apr 2, 2025 reel/frame not recorded	UBS AG, Stamford Branch	Forcepoint, LLC	Release of Security Interest
Apr 2, 2025 reel/frame not recorded	UBS AG, Stamford Branch	Bitglass, LLC	Release of Security Interest

Sources

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

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What's changing

Mar 2028

Term ends Mar 19, 2028. No further fees fall due before then

Terminal disclaimer

A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 9,015,842, ends no earlier than this term, so it caps nothing.

Citations

later US patents cite this one

That is below the median 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

Computed patent terms end on the dates shown. Related patents and pending applications may cover overlapping subject matter.

In force means the term is running and no lapse is on record. It is not a finding that the patent is valid.

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