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...that Thomas Edison's patent application on his phonograph was approved by the Patent Office in just seven weeks? In contrast, it took Gordon Gould, the inventor of the laser, 30 years to obtain his patent -- finally awarded in 1988!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7860634 | Method and apparatus for identification of wheels of a vehicle and a vehicle comprising same A method of determining the location information of a plurality of wheels mounted on a vehicle by obtaining a relationship between the lateral location of a wheel and the polarity of a transverse acceleration transmitted by an accelerometer of a wheel in response to... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7742463 | Security gatekeeper for a packetized voice communication network Admission control means for controlling admission of traffic into a voice communication network, the admission control means comprises means for examining a call control message of a call control dialogue when admission of said traffic into said voice communication ... | 06/22/2010 |
| 7733506 | Optical tilt monitoring apparatus An optical arrangement includes a position sensitive optical detector, a collimated optical source, and a processor configured to monitor the inclination of an object. The collimated optical source is configured to transmit a collimated beam towards the object. The ... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7671972 | Optical sensing methods and apparatus A method of sensing movement or proximity of objects by optical reflection is provided. The method includes the steps of transmitting a train of optical pulses towards a destination, sensing optical pulses reflected from the destination, and sensing and evaluating m... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7659544 | Light emitting device with at least two alternately driven light emitting diodes A light emitting device includes a first light emitting diode (LED) emitting a first light emission of at least a first wavelength, and a second light emitting diode emitting a second light emission of at least a second wavelength. The second LED is placed in close ... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7592615 | Optical receiver with a modulated photo-detector A distance measuring apparatus includes an optical transmitter having an optical source for transmitting modulated optical signals towards a remote object, and an optical receiver for detecting the modulated optical signals upon reflection from the remote object. Th... | 09/22/2009 |
