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Semiconductor Technologies & Instruments Pte Ltd.

20 patents currently held · Updated Nov 14, 2026
Held is read from USPTO's recorded assignments; a transfer never recorded there does not appear.
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Fee deadlines

Maintenance fees fall due 3.5, 7.5 and 11.5 years after grant. A missed fee ends a patent at the end of the six month grace period that follows, not on the due date.
  • 1 fee due Dec 4, 2026
    The maintenance fee for Single ultra-planar wafer table structure for both wafers and film frames (US 10,312,124) comes due Dec 4, 2026. Unpaid by Jun 4, 2027, it lapses early.
  • 1 fee due May 12, 2027
    The maintenance fee for Apparatus and method for automatically setting, calibrating and monitoring or measuring pickup head position and force during component pickup operations (US 10,475,690) comes due May 12, 2027. Unpaid by Nov 12, 2027, it lapses early.
  • 1 fee due Jun 10, 2027
    The maintenance fee for Method system for generating 3D composite images of objects and determining object properties based thereon (US 10,504,761) comes due Jun 10, 2027. Unpaid by Dec 10, 2027, it lapses early.
  • 1 fee due Jul 30, 2027
    The maintenance fee for Component handler (US 11,887,876) comes due Jul 30, 2027. Unpaid by Jan 31, 2028, it lapses early.

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Patents held now

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PatentTitleStatus Expires Confidence
US 7,869,021Multiple surface inspection system and method
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US 7,768,633Multiple surface inspection system and method
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US 10,876,975System and method for inspecting a wafer
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US 8,401,272Patterned wafer defect inspection system and method
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US 9,863,889System and method for inspecting a wafer
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US 9,620,398Apparatus for handling a semiconductor component
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US 8,885,918System and method for inspecting a wafer
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US 8,744,617Component pane handler configured to handle component panes of multiple sizes
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US 10,161,881System and method for inspecting a wafer
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US 8,834,091System and method using multiple component pane handlers configured to handle and transfer component panes
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Sources and methods

Compiled from the USPTO record, grants, published applications and recorded assignments, not yet reviewed by hand. How this record was built
Computed patent terms end on the dates shown. Related patents and pending applications may cover overlapping subject matter.

Published applications

US patent applications published under this name that have not become patents. An application is published about eighteen months after its earliest filing; one that has not been published is in no public record.

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