Mirrorless scanners with movable laser, optical and sensor components
CA 2063348 C · Owner: Shepard, Howard M. · Inventors: Swartz, Jerome; Shepard, Howard M.; Metlitsky, Boris
Overview
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In bar code symbol scanning systems employing laser, optical and sensor components a mirrorless, scanner arrangement mounts one or more of these components an a drive for repetitively reciprocating movement either about an axis or in a plane to effect scanning. All of the components are mounted together in a common, assembly to constitute a compact lightweight scan, module which is mounted in an interchangeable modular, manner in housings of different configurations.
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- Filed March 18, 1992 and granted December 3, 2002. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended March 18, 2012.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by March 18, 2014.
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