Term ended Apr 11, 2022 · Medium confidence
20-year base term ended Apr 11, 2022
Why Medium: A parent in the chain could not be resolved.
Held by Qognify Ltd.
Filed Dec 12, 2013 as application 14/104,609 · Granted Aug 4, 2015
Base term plus 33 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
Term ended Apr 11, 2022
2002
2026
Clock starts
Apr 11, 2002
Apr 11, 2002
Term ended
Apr 11, 2022
Apr 11, 2022
Granted
Aug 4, 2015
Aug 4, 2015
base term
after the term ends
fee events
Updated Nov 15, 2026 · includes USPTO assignment & status data published Nov 15, 2026 and grant & fee data published Nov 10, 2026 (weekly) · how we know
33
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
Capped
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 7,933,407, US 8,483,388, US 8,649,516.
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.
5
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 33 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. 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 Apr 11, 2002, when application PCT/IL2002/000291, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Dec 12, 2013); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row) | Apr 11, 2022 | 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 | +33 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | May 14, 2022 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 7,933,407, US 8,483,388, US 8,649,516) | capped to Apr 11, 2022 | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 2 of 2 maintenance fees paid | term ended | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Apr 11, 2022 | Medium confidence |
This family
| US 7,933,407 | In force Feb 2028 | Feb 2028 |
| US 8,483,388 | Term ended Sep 2022 | Sep 2022 |
| US 8,649,516 | Term ended Apr 2022 | Apr 2022 |
| US 9,098,724 | this patent Apr 2022 | Apr 2022 |
4 of 5 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 24, 2015 Reel 35487, frame 673 | Keidar, Oren; Bar-sella, Ran; Dvir, Igal | 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 |
| 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 33 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Disclaimer cap
This term is capped by a terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 7,933,407, US 8,483,388, US 8,649,516.
Citations
11
later US patents cite this one
That is above the median of utility patents granted in 2015 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
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