Collateral for a security interest recorded Feb 3, 2025 (Goldman Sachs Bank USA, as Successor Agent).
Term ends Apr 6, 2027 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Feb 23, 2027
Held by Genesys Cloud Services, Inc.
Filed Jul 20, 2016 as application 15/215,069 · Granted Dec 24, 2019
Base term plus 42 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2007
2027
Clock starts
Feb 23, 2007
Feb 23, 2007
Term ends
Apr 6, 2027
Apr 6, 2027
Granted
Dec 24, 2019
Dec 24, 2019
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
42
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 9,432,388, to Apr 6, 2027. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.
1 of 1
Maintenance fees paid
One maintenance fee can end this term early, the one due 3.5 years from grant; the next one's grace period runs past the term end. This counts it if the record shows it paid.
4
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 42 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. 1 of 1 maintenance fees is 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 Feb 23, 2007, when application 11/678,315, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jul 20, 2016) | Feb 23, 2027 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +42 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Apr 6, 2027 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 9,432,388) | resolves to Apr 6, 2027, no earlier than this term, so no change | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 1 of 1 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Apr 6, 2027 | High confidence |
This family
| US 8,427,981 | In force Feb 2031 | Feb 2031 |
| Application PCT/US2008/054271 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 9,432,388 | In force Jul 2027 | Jul 2027 |
| US 10,516,716 | this patent Apr 2027 | Apr 2027 |
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 5, 2016 Reel 40815, frame 1 | Genesys Telecommunications Laboratories, Inc., as Grantor; Echopass Corporation; Interactive Intelligence Group, Inc.; Bay Bridge Decision Technologies, Inc. | Bank of America, N.A., as Collateral Agent | Security Agreement |
| Jul 1, 2018 Reel 46463, frame 839 | Interactive Intelligence Group, Inc. | Genesys Telecommunications Laboratories, Inc. | Merger |
| Jun 7, 2024 Reel 67651, frame 783 | Genesys Telecommunications Laboratories, Inc. | Genesys Cloud Services, Inc. | Change of Name |
| Feb 3, 2025 Reel 70498, frame 1 | Bank of America, N.A., as Resigning Agent | Goldman Sachs Bank USA, as Successor Agent | Notice of Succession of Security Interests at Reel/Frame 040815/0001 |
Sources
Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO
USPTO account required: This application in Patent Center · USPTO's maintenance fee lookup
Maintenance fee events come from USPTO's own fee records. Its fee lookup asks for the patent number and the application number.
What's changing
Apr 2027
Term ends Apr 6, 2027. No further fees fall due before then
Note
The 42 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 9,432,388, ends no earlier than this term, so it caps nothing.
Citations
0
later US patents cite this one
That is below the median of utility patents granted in 2019 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.