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Joseph J. Hail

Supervisory Patent Examiner (ID: 18143, Phone: (571)272-4485 , Office: P/3723 )

Most Active Art Unit
2405
Art Unit(s)
2405, 3723, 3725, 3503, 3205
Total Applications
1471
Issued Applications
875
Pending Applications
243
Abandoned Applications
353

Applications

Application numberTitle of the applicationFiling DateStatus
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17/972811
Smart compensation for buck converters in discontinuous conduction mode Oct 24, 2022 Issued
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17/972811
Smart compensation for buck converters in discontinuous conduction mode Oct 24, 2022 Issued
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17/972589
Multi-output programmable power manager Oct 24, 2022 Issued
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17/971395
Electric drive with arc shaped busbar connected to terminal of smoothing capacitor Oct 20, 2022 Issued
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17/970331
Inverter having capacitor bus plates connecting to power modules Oct 19, 2022 Issued
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18/048163
Voltage regulation using a delta-sigma modulator, device and method Oct 19, 2022 Issued
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18/032958
Power compensation control method and apparatus for high-power multi-functional efficient charging system Oct 16, 2022 Issued
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18/045731
Inverter and Inverter Apparatus Oct 10, 2022 Abandoned
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17/938396
Systems, methods, apparatuses, and integrated circuits for power conversion with improved regulator control Oct 5, 2022 Issued
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17/959693
Constant-on-time power converter with adaptive interleaving Oct 3, 2022 Issued
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17/936600
HIGH-FREQUENCY SWITCHING DC/DC CONVERTER WITH DIFFERENT CONTROL LOOP AND SWITCHING FREQUENCIES Sep 28, 2022 Abandoned
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17/955950
Power-save mode for fixed-frequency DC-DC converter Sep 28, 2022 Issued
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17/951930
Frequency regulating circuit, frequency regulating method and switching circuit Sep 22, 2022 Issued
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17/947225
Flyback circuit and control method of clamping switch of flyback circuit Sep 18, 2022 Issued
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17/932399
REDUCED COMMON MODE VOLTAGE EMISSION CONVERTER Sep 14, 2022 Pending
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17/901509
TECHNIQUES FOR TRANSITIONING BETWEEN CONTROL MODES OF AN ACTIVE FRONT END UNIT Aug 31, 2022 Pending
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17/899397
Circuits and systems for generating power from multiple sources Aug 29, 2022 Issued
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17/895272
Switching power supply current sensing, zero-crossing detection and overvoltage protection Aug 24, 2022 Issued
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17/820986
Series stacked phase DC-DC converters with stable operation Aug 18, 2022 Issued
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17/820877
Power supply apparatus, three-phase power supply system and control method Aug 17, 2022 Issued
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