EP3031756 - LINEAR DRIVE TRANSPORT SYSTEM AND METHOD [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | Patent maintained as amended Status updated on 04.12.2020 Database last updated on 12.11.2024 | |
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Former | Request for examination was made Status updated on 23.12.2016 | Most recent event Tooltip | 04.12.2020 | Patent maintained (B2 publication) | published on 06.01.2021 [2021/01] | Applicant(s) | For all designated states Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc. 1 Allen-Bradley Drive Mayfield Heights, OH 44124 / US | [2016/24] | Inventor(s) | 01 /
WERNERSBACH, Glen C. c/o Anorad Rockwell, 41 Research Way East Setauket, NY 11733 / US | 02 /
JACOBS, Keith G. c/o Anorad Rockwell, 41 Research Way East Setauket, NY 11733 / US | 03 /
HIGGINS, Dean L. 10120 W.76th St. Eden Prairie, MN 55344 / US | 04 /
CRAVER, James A. 1201 South Second street Milwaukee, WI 53204 / US | 05 /
BOYLE, Peter T. c/o Anorad Rockwell, 41 Research Way East Setauket, NY 11733 / US | [2016/24] | Representative(s) | Grünecker Patent- und Rechtsanwälte PartG mbB Leopoldstraße 4 80802 München / DE | [2016/24] | Application number, filing date | 15197911.9 | 04.12.2015 | [2016/24] | Priority number, date | US201414563687 | 08.12.2014 Original published format: US201414563687 | [2016/24] | Filing language | EN | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | A1 Application with search report | No.: | EP3031756 | Date: | 15.06.2016 | Language: | EN | [2016/24] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP3031756 | Date: | 13.09.2017 | Language: | EN | [2017/37] | Type: | B2 New European patent specification | No.: | EP3031756 | Date: | 06.01.2021 | Language: | EN | [2021/01] | Search report(s) | (Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on: | EP | 10.05.2016 | Classification | IPC: | B65G54/02, B65G47/64 | [2016/24] | CPC: |
B65G54/02 (EP,US);
B65G47/642 (EP,US);
B65G47/643 (EP,US);
B65G47/648 (US);
B65G54/025 (EP,US)
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