Since its founding in 1996, X2Y Attenuators, LLC has been a prime innovator in advanced passive component solutions. The result is a broad portfolio of inventions that enable OEMs and system companies to increase circuit performance while dramatically lowering the cost to manufacture their products.
The company’s business model is the development and licensing of passive component solutions to capacitor manufacturers who seek to build X2Y® capacitors for their customers. In return, X2Y Attenuators, LLC receives a licensing fee and royalty payment from the capacitor manufacturers. This model allows OEMs and system companies the freedom to incorporate X2Y® Technology into their own products by simply purchasing the components through normal supply chain channels.
Portfolio Development
The X2Y IP portfolio is the result of a multi-million dollar development effort to provide a foundational product offering of passive components for use in both AC and DC circuitry. Today, a substantial portion of our research and product development efforts are to enhance and expand beyond the original technology. This endeavor has already yielded new and significant application specific passive technologies that can provide a major reduction in parts along with a substantial cost reduction in assembly. In addition, X2Y encourages OEM’s to create patents that are a combination of their own proprietary inventions and the unique and versatile X2Y® circuit arrangements. As of now there are approximately 12 patents issued world-wide to corporations that leverage the benefits of X2Y® Technology in their products.
IP Portfolio Facts
X2Y Attenuators, LLC currently has over 7,200 unique and interrelated Patent claims for capacitor structures, circuit uses and application in products. The result is a portfolio with a matrix of claims that when taken as a whole comprise a "Super Patent" of X2Y® Technology. The X2Y Patent Portfolio also includes all types of derivative electrode structures and circuitry.
Beginning with our first Patent filed in March of 1991, X2Y patents have been filed and/or issued in key countries around the world including Australia, Canada, China, the European Union (including England, Germany, Austria, Netherlands, Italy, France, Spain, Switzerland), India, Israel, Japan, Korea, Singapore and the United States of America.
IP Protection
X2Y Attenuators, LLC vigorously protects the technology contained in its patent portfolio to ensure consistent circuit performance, product availability to all users of X2Y® Technology and to fund ongoing R&D efforts. In order to prevent manufacture or usage of counterfeit parts, many of X2Y's patents are defensive in nature and used only for enforcement against those using X2Y® capacitors not built by one of the company’s licensed manufacturers.
Licensing
For passive component manufacturers seeking an X2Y® manufacturing license; leveraging the X2Y Patent Portfolio provides a way to augment or even replace in-house research and development efforts. Through licensing, passive component manufacturers can quickly gain technical and competitive advantage in the market place, open new markets and have instant access to the rapidly growing list of customers switching to X2Y® Technology for their products. Capacitor manufacturers wishing to find out more about an X2Y® License Program are encouraged to contact X2Y Attenuators, LLC .
X2Y® Patents
The following listing is just a portion of the X2Y Portfolio that have issued or have provisional Patent rights granted from various International Patent Offices around the world.
List of X2Y Issued Patents
ISSUED - USA Patents
| US 7,113,383 - Predetermined Symmetrically Balanced Amalgam With Complementary Paired Portions Comprising Shielding Electrodes And Shielded Electrodes And Other Predetermined Element Portions For Symmetrically Balanced And Complementary Energy Portion Conditioning |
| US 7,110,235 - Arrangement For Energy Conditioning |
| US 7,110,227 - Universal Energy Conditioning Interposer With Circuit Architecture |
| US 7,106,570 - Pathway Arrangement |
| US 7,050,284 - Component Carrier |
| US 7,042,703 - Energy Conditioning Structure |
| US 7,042,303 - Energy Conditioning Circuit Assembly |
| US 6,995,983 - Component Carrier |
| US 6,954,346 - Filter Assembly |
| US 6,950,293 - Paired Multi-Layered Dielectric Independent Passive Component Architecture Resulting In Differential and Common Mode Filtering With Surge Protection in One Integrated Package |
| US 6,894,884 - Offset Pathway Arrangements for Energy Conditioning |
| US 6,873,513 - Paired Multi-Layered Dielectric Independent Passive Component Architecture Resulting In Differential and Common Mode Filtering With Surge Protection in One Integrated Package |
| US 6,806,806 - Polymer Fuse and Filter Apparatus |
| US 6,738,249 - Universal Energy Conditioning Interposer with Circuit Architecture |
| US 6,687,108 - Passive Electrostatic Shielding Structure for ..With Outer Partial Shielded Energy Pathways |
| US 6,650,525 - Component Carrier |
| US 6,636,406 - Universal Multi-Functional Common Conductive Shield Structure for ..Energy Conditioning |
| US 6,606,011 - Energy Conditioning Circuit Assembly |
| US 6,603,646 - Multi-Functional Energy Conditioner |
| US 6,594,128 - Paired Multi-Layered Dielectric .. Passive Component Architecture |
| US 6,580,595 - Predetermined Symmetrically Balanced Amalgam |
| US 6,563,688 - Isolating Energy Conditioning Shield Assembly |
| US 6,549,389 - Electrode Arrangement for Energy Conditioning |
| US 6,522,516 - Polymer Fuse and Filter Apparatus |
| US 6,509,807 - Energy Conditioning Circuit Assembly |
| US 6,498,710 - Paired Multi-Layered Dielectric .. Passive Component Architecture |
| US 6,469,595 - Isolating Energy Conditioning Shield Assembly |
| US 6,388,856 - Polymer Fuse and Filter Apparatus |
| US 6,373,673 - A Multi-Functional Energy Conditioner |
| US 6,331,926 - Paired Multi-Layered Dielectric Passive Architecture |
| US 6,282,074 - Polymer Fuse and Filter Apparatus |
| US 6,157,528 - Polymer Fuse and Filter Apparatus |
| US 6,097,581 - Paired Multi-Layered Dielectric .. Passive Component Architecture |
| US 6,018,448 - Paired Multi-Layered Dielectric .. Passive Component Architecture |
| US 5,909,350 - Paired Multi-Layered Dielectric.. Passive Component Architecture |
| US 5,142,430 - Power Line Filter |
ISSUED - International Patents
| Australian Patent #2002213356 - Amalgam... Single/Multiple Circuitries W/ Common Ref Node. |
| Australian Patent #2001261095 - Predetermined Symmetrically Balanced Amalgam |
| Australian Patent #774310 - Multi-Functional Energy Conditioner |
| European Patent EP # 5231-190 B1 - Power Line Filter |
| Swiss Patent – From EP # 5231-190 B1 |
| French Patent – From EP # 5231-190 B1 |
| Italian Patent – From EP # 5231-190 B1 - # 91909257.7 |
| UK Patent – From EP # 5231-190 B1 |
| Netherlands – From EP # 5231-190 B1 |
| German Patent – From EP # 5231-190 B1 - DE 69120063.7 |
| European Patent EP # 1277278 B1 - Isolating Energy Conditioning Shield Assembly |
| German Patent DE 101 02 440 C1 - Circuit Config. for Interference Suppression of ICs |
| German Patent DE 203 19 863.8 - Strukturen, die Verbindungselemente betreffen |
| Japan Patent JP 253-1557 B2 - Power Line Filter |
| Korean Patent # 544868 - Electrode Arrangement for Circuit Energy Conditioning |
| Korean Patent # 541828 - Predetermined Symmetrically Balanced Amalgam |
| Korean Patent # 536511 - Amalgam... Single or Multiple Circuitries W/ Common Ref Node. |
| Korean Patent # 488303 - Multi-Functional Energy Conditioner |
| Korean Patent # 449690 - Universal .. Shield Structure for ..Energy Conditioning |
| Korean Patent # 385302 - Paired Multi-Layered Dielectric .. Passive Component Architecture |
| People's Republic of China Patent #231173 - Energy Conditioning Circuit Assembly |
| People's Republic of China Patent #TBA - Multi-Functional Energy Conditioner |
| Singapore Patent #100205 - Offset Pathway Arrangements for Energy Conditioning |
| Singapore Patent # 97370 - Arrangements for Energy Conditioning |
| Singapore Patent # 96118 - Amalgam... Single or Multiple Circuitries W/ Common Ref Node. |
| Singapore Patent # 95883 - Electrode Arrangement for Circuit Energy Conditioning |
| Singapore Patent # 92571 - Predetermined Symmetrically Balanced Amalgam |
| Singapore Patent # 92042 - Isolating Energy Conditioning Shield Assembly |
| Singapore Patent # 86221 - Universal Energy Conditioning Interposer with Circuit Architecture |
| Singapore Patent # 85407 - Universal .. Shield Structure for ..Energy Conditioning |
| Singapore Patent # 84832 - Multi-Functional Energy Conditioner |
| Singapore Patent # 74275 - Paired Multi-Layered ... Passive Comp. Architecture |
| Singapore Patent # 76228 - Component Carrier |
Published Applications w/ Provisional Rights - European Patent Office
| EP1629582 - Filter Assembly |
| EP1649572 - Connector Related Structures Including an Energy Conditioner |
| EP1588501 - Shielded Energy Conditioner |
| EP1402764 - Arrangement for Energy Conditioning |
| EP1384302 - Offset Pathway Arrangements for Energy Conditioning |
| EP1346087 - Energy Pathway Arrangement |
| EP1342398 - Energy Pathway Arrangements for Energy Conditioning |
| EP1334543 - Energy Pathway Arrangement |
| EP1334542 - Amalgam of Shielding and Shielded Energy Pathways and Other Elements for Single or Multiple Circuitries with Common Reference Node |
| EP1312148 - An Electrode Arrangement for Circuit Energy Conditioning |
| EP1303898 - Predetermined Symmetrically Balanced Amalgam with Complementary Paired Portions Comprising Shielding Electrodes and Shielded Electrodes and Other Predetermined Element Portions for Symmetrically Balanced and Complementary Energy Portion Conditioning |
| EP1277278 - Isolating Energy Conditioning Shield Assembly |
| EP1264377- Passive Electrostatic Shielding Structure for ..With Outer Partial Shielded Energy Pathways |
| EP1222725 - Universal Multi-Functional .. Shield Structure for ..Energy Conditioning |
| EP1206825 - Universal Energy Conditioning Interposer with Circuit Architecture |
| EP1177641 - Energy Conditioning Circuit Assembly |
| EPA 99 902 340.1 - Paired Multi-Layered Dielectric... Passive Architecture |
| EPA 98 915 364.8 - Paired Multi-Layered Dielectric... Passive Architecture |
| EPA 00 946 814.1 (06/15/1999) - Universal Multi-Functional Conductive Shield |
| EPA 00 937 854.8 (05/28/1999) - A Multi-Functional Energy Conditioner |
Published USA Applications w/ Provisional Rights
| US-2006-0023385-A1 |
| US-2005-0286198-A1 |
| US-2005-0248900-A1 |
| US-2005-0063127-A1 |
| US-2005-0018374-A1 |
| US-2005-0016761-A1 |
| US-2004-0226733-A1 |
| US-2004-0218332-A1 |
| US-2004-0130840-A1 |
| US-2004-0124949-A1 |
| US-2004-0105205-A1 |
| US-2004-0085699-A1 |
| US-2004-0054426-A1 |
| US-2004-0032304-A1 |
| US-2004-0027771-A1 |
| US-2004-0008466-A1 |
| US-2004-0004802-A1 |
| US-2003-0231456-A1 |
| US-2003-0231451-A1 |
| US-2003-0210125-A1 |
| US-2003-0202312-A1 |
| US-2003-0161086-A1 |
| US-2003-0067730 A1 |
| US-2003-0029635 A1 |
Recently Published WIPO Applications for National Stages
| WO 2006-104613 - CONDITIONER WITH COPLANAR CONDUCTORS |
| WO 2006-093831 - ENERGY CONDITIONER WITH TIED THROUGH ELECTRODES |
| WO 2006-093830 - INTERNALLY OVERLAPPED CONDITIONERS |
| WO 2005-065097 - INTERNALLY SHIELDED ENERGY CONDITIONER |
| WO 2005-015719 - FILTER ASSEMBLY |
| WO 2005-002018 - CONNECTOR RELATED STRUCTURES INCLUDING AN ENERGY |
| WO 2004-070905 - SHIELDED ENERGY CONDITIONER |
| WO 2003-005541 - ARRANGEMENT FOR ENERGY CONDITIONING |