Term ended Dec 23, 2024 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Feb 6, 2023
Held by Qognify Ltd.
Filed Dec 10, 2003 as application 10/480,365 · Granted Oct 14, 2008
Base term plus 686 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Term ended Dec 23, 2024
2003
2026
Clock starts
Feb 6, 2003
Feb 6, 2003
Term ended
Dec 23, 2024
Dec 23, 2024
Granted
Oct 14, 2008
Oct 14, 2008
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
686
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 686 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. All three maintenance fees were paid, so no fee lapse ended it. Confidence: High. from the record
How we calculated this date
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| Step | Input | Date after this step | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Base term, 20 years from filing | Clock starts Feb 6, 2003, when application PCT/IL2003/000097, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Dec 10, 2003) | Feb 6, 2023 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +686 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Dec 23, 2024 | 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 | term ended | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Dec 23, 2024 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,436,887 | this patent Dec 2024 | Dec 2024 |
| US 9,052,386 | In force May 2028 | May 2028 |
2 of 3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 10, 2003 Reel 15506, frame 391 | Yeredor, Arie; Dvir, Igal; Koren-blumstein, Guy; Lachover, Boaz | Nice Systems, Ltd. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Sep 21, 2015 Reel 36615, frame 243 | Nice Systems Ltd. | Qognify Ltd. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Dec 28, 2018 Reel 47871, frame 771 | Qognify Ltd.; On-Net Surveillance Systems Inc. | Monroe Capital Management Advisors, LLC | Security Interest |
| Jul 1, 2020 Reel 53117, frame 260 | Qognify Ltd.; On-Net Surveillance Systems Inc. | Monroe Capital Management Advisors, LLC | Corrective Assignment to Correct the Property Numbers Previously Recorded at Reel: 047871 Frame: 0771. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Assignment. |
| Apr 6, 2023 Reel 63280, frame 367 | Monroe Capital Management Advisors, LLC, as Administrative Agent | Qognify Ltd.; On-Net Surveillance Systems Inc. | Release of Security Interest in Patent Collateral |
| Apr 6, 2023 reel/frame not recorded | Monroe Capital Management Advisors, LLC, as Administrative Agent | Qognify Ltd. | Release of Security Interest in Patent Collateral |
| Apr 6, 2023 reel/frame not recorded | Monroe Capital Management Advisors, LLC, as Administrative Agent | On-Net Surveillance Systems Inc. | Release of Security Interest in Patent Collateral |
Sources
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Note
The 686 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
323
later US patents cite this one
That is top 1% of utility patents granted in 2008 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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