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Self test method for an ultrasonic time-of-flight measurement device, and device for carrying out the method

EP 0816865 A2 · Applicant: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT

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  • Filed June 18, 1997 and never granted as a European patent. Had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended June 18, 2017.
  • 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 December 18, 2022.
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FiledJune 18, 1997
PublishedJanuary 7, 1998
GrantedNever granted
Term endedJune 18, 2017
Application numberEP 97109967
Classification (CPC)G01F25/10 +2 more

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