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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5103474 | Drive-by personnel monitoring system with radio link A personnel monitoring system for monitoring presence or absence of particular individuals at preassigned monitoring locations. A local unit is provided at each monitoring location for detecting presence or absence. Each local unit is arranged for short r... | 04/07/1992 |
| 5075670 | Personnel monitoring tag with tamper detection and secure reset A signalling tag of the type used in house arrest systems has a tamper detection device for detecting removal of the tag from the monitored person. The signal is set to a tamper condition upon removal. The tamper detector can only be reset to the normal s... | 12/24/1991 |
| 5032823 | Secure personnel monitoring system A personnel monitoring system includes a tag worn by each monitored person. The tag repeatedly emits digital radio signals, and a predetermined bit in the signal changes with time according to a predetermined pattern. Monitoring apparatus detects the radi... | 07/16/1991 |
| 4924211 | Personnel monitoring system A system for monitoring presence of persons at preselected monitoring locations. A plurality of local units, one at each monitoring location, determines whether the monitored person is present or absent at the monitoring location and sends report signals ... | 05/08/1990 |
| 4747120 | Automatic personnel monitoring system A monitoring system for indicating the presence of a person at a remote location through a telephone line includes circuitry at a central location for automatically establishing a telephone link between the central and remote locations. A decoder at the r... | 05/24/1988 |
| 4696385 | Electronic coin detection apparatus Electronic coin or token detector apparatus is provided in accordance with the teachings of the present invention wherein a predetermined parameter of a coin under test is measured to determine genuineness and surface reflectivity is tested to insure a se... | 09/29/1987 |
| 4678994 | Methods and apparatus employing apparent resonant properties of thin conducting materials Methods and apparatus for sensing, switching and modulating relying upon apparent resonant properties of thin conductive materials are provided in accordance with the teachings of the present invention. According to the present invention, an output of an ... | 07/07/1987 |
| 4569522 | Gaming device using visible randomization A gaming apparatus uses a group of distinctively colored marbles which are released to travel down an inclined path consisting of four mutually perpendicular segments. A series of deflecting pins are provided along the path for randomizing movement of the... | 02/11/1986 |
| 4533141 | Gaming apparatus with color sensitive detector A gaming apparatus wherein a group of rolling elements each having a visible identification characteristic are released to travel down an inclined path. Disposed upon the inclined path are a plurality of deflectors each incorporating structure for preclud... | 08/06/1985 |
| 4438296 | Multimessage automatic telephone polling methods and apparatus Multimessage automatic telephone polling methods and apparatus are provided wherein, telephone numbers for automatic dialing are selected from a queue upon a basis of least prior unsuccessful attempts at calling each telephone number. Thereafter, selectio... | 03/20/1984 |
| 4356348 | Techniques for detecting a condition of response on a telephone line Methods and apparatus for detecting a condition of response on a telephone line are disclosed in accordance with the teachings of the present invention wherein time intervals between the zero crosspoints of an input signal are ascertained and the most pre... | 10/26/1982 |
| 4201896 | Telephone polling apparatus using a plurality of timers to detect the line conditions A telephone polling apparatus uses an energy detection device in cooperation with timing elements to provide discrimination between various conditions on the telephone line. These conditions are (1) a busy condition, (2) an answer condition, which can occ... | 05/06/1980 |
| 4188510 | Telephone sequential number dialer with number incrementing A telephone sequential dialer features a shift register which has a number of bit positions which are one more than the maximum number of digits to be dialed. A plurality of consecutive ONES starting at the leading edge of the shift register are inserted ... | 02/12/1980 |
| 4160125 | Telephone polling apparatus Telephone polling apparatus is disclosed for supplying a prerecorded message to a plurality of telephone subscriber stations in sequence and recording responses from the stations after supplying the message thereto. The apparatus stores a telephone number... | 07/03/1979 |
