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Integrated Circuit Package Having a Split Lead Frame

US 9,494,660 In force
OverviewFamilyAssignmentsSources & methods
Collateral for a security interest recorded Jun 22, 2023 (Morgan Stanley Senior Funding, Inc., as the Collateral Agent).

Term ends Dec 6, 2032 · Medium confidence

Why Medium: The disclaimer's references carry disclaimers of their own not yet read (US 9,411,025), so the cap could be lower.

Filed Jan 25, 2013 as application 13/749,776 · Granted Nov 15, 2016
Base term plus 261 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
20 years from filing
2012 2032
Clock starts
Mar 20, 2012
Term ends
Dec 6, 2032
Granted
Nov 15, 2016
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
261
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 9,411,025, to Dec 6, 2032. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.
2 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.
14
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 261 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer is resolved from the filed document, and it ends no earlier than this term, so it shortens nothing. 2 of 3 maintenance fees are paid so far. Confidence: Medium. 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 Mar 20, 2012, when application 13/424,618, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jan 25, 2013)Mar 20, 2032High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+261 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordDec 6, 2032High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capDisclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 9,411,025)resolves to Dec 6, 2032, no earlier than this term, so no changeMedium confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events2 of 3 maintenance fees paidIn forceHigh confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderDec 6, 2032Medium confidence

This family

US 10,234,513In force
Feb 2033
Feb 2033
US 9,812,588In force
Apr 2032
Apr 2032
US 9,494,660this patent
Dec 2032
Dec 2032
Application PCT/US2013/025858PCT application
no patent term
no patent term
US 9,666,788In force
Apr 2032
Apr 2032
Application PCT/US2013/030112PCT application
no patent term
no patent term
US 10,230,006In force
Mar 2032
Mar 2032
Application 16/165,464Abandoned
not computed
not computed
8 of 14 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
Mar 12, 2013
Reel 29970, frame 470
David, Paul; Taylor, William P.; Scheller, P. Karl; Vig, Ravi; Friedrich, Andreas P.Allegro 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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