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Voltage regulator with low power consumption

EP 1148404 B1 · Applicant: STMicroelectronics SA

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  • Filed March 31, 2001 and granted November 2, 2005. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended March 31, 2021.
  • 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 October 1, 2026.
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FiledMarch 31, 2001
PublishedOctober 24, 2001
GrantedNovember 2, 2005
Term endedMarch 31, 2021
Application numberEP 01108243
Classification (CPC)G05F1/565

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