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EP0580140
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| EP0580140 - Covert ranging method and system [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 01.10.1999 Database last updated on 19.10.2024 | Most recent event Tooltip | 01.10.1999 | No opposition filed within time limit | published on 17.11.1999 [1999/46] | Applicant(s) | For all designated states Texas Instruments Incorporated 13500 North Central Expressway Dallas, Texas 75265 / US | [N/P] |
| Former [1994/04] | For all designated states TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED 13500 North Central Expressway Dallas Texas 75265 / US | Inventor(s) | 01 /
Choate, William C. 6247 Twin Oaks Circle Dallas, TX 75240 / US | 02 /
Frey, Charles E. 4921 South Colony Blvd Colony, TX 75056 / US | 03 /
Tyree, Anthony K. 1917 Walters Plano, TX 75023 / US | [1994/04] | Representative(s) | Schwepfinger, Karl-Heinz Prinz & Partner GbR Manzingerweg 7 81241 München / DE | [N/P] |
| Former [1994/04] | Schwepfinger, Karl-Heinz, Dipl.-Ing. Prinz & Partner, Manzingerweg 7 D-81241 München / DE | Application number, filing date | 93111670.1 | 21.07.1993 | [1994/04] | Priority number, date | US19920918534 | 22.07.1992 Original published format: US 918534 | [1994/04] | Filing language | EN | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | A1 Application with search report | No.: | EP0580140 | Date: | 26.01.1994 | Language: | EN | [1994/04] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP0580140 | Date: | 25.11.1998 | Language: | EN | [1998/48] | Search report(s) | (Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on: | EP | 29.10.1993 | Classification | IPC: | G01S13/72, G01S5/16 | [1994/04] | CPC: |
G01S13/723 (EP,US);
G01S5/16 (EP,US)
| Designated contracting states | DE, FR, GB [1994/04] | Title | German: | Geheime Entfernungsmess -Verfahren und -Vorrichtung | [1998/48] | English: | Covert ranging method and system | [1994/04] | French: | Méthode et système discrets de mesure de distance | [1994/04] |
| Former [1994/04] | Geheime Entfernungsmassverfahren und -system | Examination procedure | 26.07.1994 | Examination requested [1994/38] | 17.07.1996 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M06) | 24.01.1997 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 11.09.1997 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04) | 20.01.1998 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 27.02.1998 | Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: Yes) | 26.05.1998 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 05.08.1998 | Fee for grant paid | 05.08.1998 | Fee for publishing/printing paid | Opposition(s) | 26.08.1999 | No opposition filed within time limit [1999/46] | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 25.07.1995 | Renewal fee patent year 03 | 29.07.1996 | Renewal fee patent year 04 | 24.07.1997 | Renewal fee patent year 05 | 27.07.1998 | Renewal fee patent year 06 |
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| Responsibility for the accuracy, completeness or quality of the data displayed under the link provided lies entirely with the Unified Patent Court. | Documents cited: | Search | [Y]US4954837 (BAIRD CHARLES A [US], et al); | [Y]US3935572 (BRONIWITZ LAURENCE E, et al); | [A]US5095467 (OLSON DAVID P [US], et al) | [A] - IEEE 1989 NATIONAL AEROSPACE AND ELECTRONICS CONFERENCE NAECON 1989 vol. 2, May 1989, DAYTON , OH , USA pages 909 - 916 , XP76441 NOEL COLLINS AND CHARLES BAIRD 'Terrain aided passive estimation', XP000076441 | Examination | - STELIOS ET AL., "3-D motion tracking using stereo camera and range radar", SPIE SENSING AND RECONSTRUCTION OF THREE-DIMENSIONAL OBJECTS AND SCENES, vol. 1260, pages 21 - 35 |