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Magnetic Field Sensor and Associated Method That Can Establish a Measured Threshold Value and That Can Store the Measured Threshold Value in a Memory Device

US 8,736,260 In force
OverviewFamilyAssignmentsSources & methods
Collateral for a security interest recorded Jun 22, 2023 (Morgan Stanley Senior Funding, Inc., as the Collateral Agent).

Term ends Nov 18, 2032 · High confidence

Filed Jan 6, 2012 as application 13/345,021 · Granted May 27, 2014
Base term plus 317 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
20 years from filing
2012 2032
Clock starts
Jan 6, 2012
Term ends
Nov 18, 2032
Granted
May 27, 2014
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
317
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.
8
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 317 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. All three maintenance fees are recorded paid; no more fees are due. Confidence: High. from the record

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Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Jan 6, 2012, when this application, 13/345,021, was filedJan 6, 2032High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+317 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordNov 18, 2032High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events3 of 3 maintenance fees paidIn forceHigh confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderNov 18, 2032High confidence

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Application PCT/US2012/068879PCT application
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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
Jan 24, 2012
Reel 27583, frame 599
Foletto, Andrea; Shoemaker, EricAllegro Microsystems, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Jan 24, 2012
Reel 27583, frame 572
Cisar, Peter; SSG Semiconductor Systems GmbHAllegro Microsystems, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Apr 10, 2013
Reel 30426, frame 178
Allegro Microsystems, Inc.Allegro Microsystems, LLCConversion and Name Change
Nov 14, 2014
Reel 34171, frame 492
Allegro Microsystems Europe LimitedAllegro Microsystems, LLCAssignment of Assignor's Interest
Oct 1, 2020
Reel 53957, frame 620
Allegro Microsystems, LLCMizuho Bank Ltd., as Collateral AgentPatent Security Agreement
Oct 1, 2020
Reel 53957, frame 874
Allegro Microsystems, LLCCredit Suisse AG, Cayman Islands Branch, as Collateral AgentPatent Security Agreement
Jun 22, 2023
Reel 64068, frame 459
Allegro Microsystems, LLCMorgan Stanley Senior Funding, Inc., as the Collateral AgentPatent Security Agreement
Jun 22, 2023
Reel 64068, frame 360
Mizuho Bank, Ltd., as Collateral AgentAllegro Microsystems, LLCRelease of Security Interest in Patents (R/F 053957/0620)
Nov 1, 2023
Reel 65420, frame 572
Credit Suisse AG, Cayman Islands Branch, as Collateral AgentAllegro Microsystems, LLCRelease of Security Interest in Patents at Reel 053957/FRAME 0874

Sources

Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO

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