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Multi-layer atmospheric fading in real-time computer image generator

EP 0531084 B1 · Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY

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  • Filed September 1, 1992 and granted July 11, 2001. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended September 1, 2012.
  • A supplementary protection certificate, which can extend a medicine or crop-protection patent, adds at most five and a half years, so even that would have ended by March 1, 2018.
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FiledSeptember 1, 1992
PublishedMarch 10, 1993
GrantedJuly 11, 2001
Term endedSeptember 1, 2012
Application numberEP 92307912
Classification (CPC)G06T15/50

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