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Power Converter with an Adaptive Controller and Method of Operating the Same

US 9,197,132 Lapsed on the fee record
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Collateral for a security interest recorded Apr 20, 2021 (NSF I LLC).

Lapsed Nov 24, 2023 on the fee record · High confidence

Second maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.

Filed Feb 25, 2010 as application 12/712,894 · Granted Nov 24, 2015
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 378 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed Nov 24, 2023
2006 2027
Clock starts
Dec 1, 2006
No longer in force
Nov 24, 2023
Granted
Nov 24, 2015
Term would have run to
Dec 14, 2027
base term patent term adjustment 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
378
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
No effect
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 7,675,758, to Dec 14, 2027. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.
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.
6
Family applications on record here
Applications sharing this one's continuity chain whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.

Its term would have run to Dec 14, 2027: its 20-year base term plus 378 days of term adjustment for prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer is resolved from the filed document, and it ends no earlier than this term, so it shortens nothing. 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 Dec 1, 2006, when application 11/607,325, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Feb 25, 2010)Dec 1, 2026High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+378 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordDec 14, 2027High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capDisclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 7,675,758)resolves to Dec 14, 2027, no earlier than this term, so no changeHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events1 of 3 maintenance fees paidlapsed Nov 24, 2023High confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderNov 24, 2023High confidence

This family

US 7,675,758In force
Jan 2028
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US 7,675,759In force
Aug 2027
Aug 2027
US 7,667,986In force
Dec 2026
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US 8,477,514Lapsed on the fee record
Jul 2025
Jul 2025
US 9,197,132this patent
Nov 2023
Nov 2023
US 7,889,517In force
Dec 2026
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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 5, 2020
Reel 52566, frame 321
Artusi, Daniel A.; Rozman, Allen F.Coldwatt, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
May 5, 2020
Reel 52595, frame 201
Coldwatt, Inc.; Flextronics International USA, Inc.Flextronics International USA, Inc.Merger and Change of Name
Apr 8, 2021
Reel 55879, frame 707
Flextronics International USA, Inc.Mypaq Holdings Ltd.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Apr 20, 2021
Reel 55973, frame 892
Mypaq Holdings Ltd.NSF I LLCSecurity Interest
Jul 20, 2022
Reel 61266, frame 1
Coldwatt, Inc.Flextronics International USA, Inc.Conveyance by Dissolution of Coldwatt, Inc., Which Was Completed on 04-09-2012 per Attached Declaration. Conveyance Was Made to Coldwatt's Sole Stockholder, Flextronics International Usa, Inc. See Del. Code Ann. Tit. 8, § 281(B).

Sources

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

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