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CA 2370624 A1 · Owner: Lazerman, Leon · Inventors: Lazerman, Leon
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
Open the CIPO recordAbstract From the Canadian patent
This invention is a modular device that uses permanent-magnets and electromagnets to hold, their position and reconfigure their position. The device has a variety of possible sizes, shapes, and forms but all use the same principle of "complementary geometry". In its simplest form it could be used as a child's toy. A dozen or so 3" blocks with only, permanent-magnets and using this "complementary geometry" system would allow , the most, uncoordinated child a frustration free assembly of their building blocks because the blocks would, literally slide into place. In a more complex example: the device could be used as a digital display. By having a, matrix of devices with permanent & …
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Why it's free to use
- Filed January 25, 2002. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended January 25, 2022.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by January 25, 2024.
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