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Fred E. Finch Iii

Examiner (ID: 15937, Phone: (571)270-7883 , Office: P/2838 )

Most Active Art Unit
2838
Art Unit(s)
2838, 4116
Total Applications
1037
Issued Applications
814
Pending Applications
77
Abandoned Applications
178

Applications

Application numberTitle of the applicationFiling DateStatus
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16/868799
Apparatus and method for a bandgap reference May 6, 2020 Issued
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17/997326
Power converter and failure analysis method Apr 29, 2020 Issued
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16/860475
Method for driving a switch in a power converter, drive circuit and power converter Apr 27, 2020 Issued
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16/859219
Methods for estimating output current or output voltage of isolated resonant converter Apr 26, 2020 Issued
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16/857169
Power converter and control circuit thereof Apr 22, 2020 Issued
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16/850413
Voltage converter Apr 15, 2020 Issued
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16/845177
Boost converter Apr 9, 2020 Issued
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16/830327
Conversion system with high voltage side and low voltage side Mar 25, 2020 Issued
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16/825136
Power supply control device and switching power supply Mar 19, 2020 Issued
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17/599124
PROTECTION APPARATUS FOR A DRIVER CIRCUIT, AND METHOD FOR PROTECTING A DRIVER CIRCUIT Mar 17, 2020 Abandoned
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16/815505
Glitch mitigation in selectable output current mirrors with degeneration resistors Mar 10, 2020 Issued
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16/814647
Detection and elimination of DC injection on the power grid system Mar 9, 2020 Issued
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16/810412
Buck-boost converter with positive output voltage Mar 4, 2020 Issued
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17/753860
Apparatus and method for controlling delta-connected cascaded multilevel converter Feb 27, 2020 Issued
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16/646024
POWER CIRCUIT Feb 24, 2020 Abandoned
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16/798532
Microgrid power supply system DC-DC converter and controlling method Feb 23, 2020 Issued
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16/795594
Power conversion device, power conversion system, and power conversion method Feb 19, 2020 Issued
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17/310962
Power supply, control program, and control method Feb 19, 2020 Issued
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16/794608
Power supply having two quadrant converter and techniques for operation Feb 18, 2020 Issued
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16/787122
Power conversion device Feb 10, 2020 Issued
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