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Input Voltage Adaptive Jitter for Quasi-Resonant Control

US 11,228,240 In force
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Term ends Dec 13, 2037 · High confidence

Filed Oct 8, 2020 as application 17/066,088 · Granted Jan 18, 2022
Base term, 20 years from filing · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
20 years from filing
2019 2039
Clock starts
Oct 29, 2019
Term ends
Dec 13, 2037
Granted
Jan 18, 2022
base term 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
None
Term adjustment
No prosecution delay on this record.
Capped
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 10,888,578.
1 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.
10
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 resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. 1 of 3 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.
StepInputDate after this stepConfidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Oct 29, 2019, when application 16/667,585, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Oct 8, 2020)Oct 29, 2039High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustmentNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Terminal disclaimer capDisclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 10,888,578)capped to Dec 13, 2037High confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events1 of 3 maintenance fees paidIn forceHigh confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderDec 13, 2037High confidence

This family

US 10,637,348In force
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US 10,833,578In force
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US 11,228,240this patent
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8 of 10 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.
RecordedAssignorAssigneeConveyance
Oct 8, 2020
Reel 54012, frame 228
Su, Wei Chuan; Huang, Feng-jung; Lo, Yuan-hungDiodes IncorporatedAssignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

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