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Method and device for recording three-dimensional distance-measuring images

EP 1040366 B1 · Applicant: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT

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  • Filed November 14, 1998 and granted October 8, 2003. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended November 14, 2018.
  • 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 May 14, 2024.
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FiledNovember 14, 1998
PublishedOctober 4, 2000
GrantedOctober 8, 2003
Term endedNovember 14, 2018
Application numberEP 98962257
Classification (CPC)G01S7/4802 +2 more

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