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Method and apparatus for automatic tuning calibration of electronically tuned filters

EP 0540908 B1 · Applicant: MOTOROLA, INC.

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  • Filed October 14, 1992 and granted January 8, 1997. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended October 14, 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 April 14, 2018.
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FiledOctober 14, 1992
PublishedMay 12, 1993
GrantedJanuary 8, 1997
Term endedOctober 14, 2012
Application numberEP 92117504
Classification (CPC)H03J3/32 +1 more

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