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Control system and method for moving multiple automated vehicles along a monorail

EP 1159180 B1 · Applicant: Innovative Transportation Systems International Inc.

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  • Filed October 22, 1999 and granted January 30, 2008. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended October 22, 2019.
  • 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 22, 2025.
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FiledOctober 22, 1999
PublishedDecember 5, 2001
GrantedJanuary 30, 2008
Term endedOctober 22, 2019
Application numberEP 99970971
Classification (CPC)B61L23/005

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