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Implantable capacitive absolute pressure and temperature sensor

EP 0757541 B1 · Applicant: Medtronic, Inc.

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  • Filed January 24, 1996 and granted November 20, 2002. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended January 24, 2016.
  • 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 July 24, 2021.
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FiledJanuary 24, 1996
PublishedFebruary 12, 1997
GrantedNovember 20, 2002
Term endedJanuary 24, 2016
Application numberEP 96905206
Classification (CPC)A61N1/36564 +2 more

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