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Maximized Power in a Photovoltaic Distributed Power System

US 9,853,565 Lapsed on the fee record
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Lapsed Dec 26, 2025 on the fee record · High confidence

Second maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.

Filed May 9, 2016 as application 15/149,353 · Granted Dec 26, 2017
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
Lapsed Dec 26, 2025
2013 2033
Clock starts
Jan 30, 2013
No longer in force
Dec 26, 2025
Granted
Dec 26, 2017
Term would have run to
Jan 30, 2033
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.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
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.
63
Family applications on record here
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Its term would have run to Jan 30, 2033: its 20-year base term, with no adjustment for prosecution delay. Confidence: High. from the record

How we calculated this date

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Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Jan 30, 2013, when application 13/754,059, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed May 9, 2016)Jan 30, 2033High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustmentNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events1 of 3 maintenance fees paidlapsed Dec 26, 2025High confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderDec 26, 2025High confidence

This family

US 9,647,442In force
Jul 2033
Jul 2033
US 9,812,984In force
Nov 2034
Nov 2034
Application PCT/US2013/042354PCT application
no patent term
no patent term
US 9,870,016In force
Feb 2034
Feb 2034
US 10,992,255In force
Sep 2036
Sep 2036
Application PCT/US2015/056776PCT application
no patent term
no patent term
US 9,853,565this patent
Dec 2025
Dec 2025
US 10,230,310In force
Oct 2036
Oct 2036
8 of 63 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
May 10, 2016
Reel 38527, frame 106
Bieber, Ofir; Yoscovich, Ilan; Glovinsky, TzachiSolaredge Technologies Ltd.Assignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

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