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Rotation rate measurement and fiber optic gyroscopes

EP 0871009 B1 · Applicant: Litton Systems

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  • Filed April 9, 1997 and granted January 26, 2005. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended April 9, 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 October 9, 2022.
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FiledApril 9, 1997
PublishedOctober 14, 1998
GrantedJanuary 26, 2005
Term endedApril 9, 2017
Application numberEP 97302433
Classification (CPC)G01C19/72

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