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Threshold voltage adjusting method for a MIS device and charge detecting device

EP 0886321 B1 · Applicant: SONY CORPORATION

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  • Filed July 13, 1995 and granted September 15, 2004. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended July 13, 2015.
  • A supplementary protection certificate, which can extend a medicine or crop-protection patent, adds at most five and a half years, so even that would have ended by January 13, 2021.
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FiledJuly 13, 1995
PublishedDecember 23, 1998
GrantedSeptember 15, 2004
Term endedJuly 13, 2015
Application numberEP 98114675
Classification (CPC)H03F1/301 +2 more

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