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Guenter W. Brune — 109 Patents

MTMerlin Technology: 96 patents #3 of 39Top 8%
DIDigital Control Incorporated: 10 patents #4 of 8Top 50%
MTMerlin Technologies: 1 patents #1 of 10Top 10%
Bellevue, WA: #43 of 6,950 inventorsTop 1%
Washington: #223 of 76,902 inventorsTop 1%
Overall (All Time): #12,041 of 4,157,543Top 1%
109 Patents All Time

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Showing 1–25 of 109 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDate
12188346 Advanced underground homing system, apparatus and method John E. Mercer, Albert W. Chau 2025-01-07
11598198 Advanced underground homing system, apparatus and method John E. Mercer, Albert W. Chau 2023-03-07
11480446 Tracking positions of personnel, vehicles, and inanimate objects Rudolf Zeller, Albert W. Chau, John E. Mercer 2022-10-25
11118442 Boring tool tracking fundamentally based on drill string length, pitch and roll James W. Burrows, John E. Mercer 2021-09-14
11035218 Advanced steering tool system, method and apparatus Albert W. Chau, Rudolf Zeller, John E. Mercer 2021-06-15
10895145 Advanced underground homing system, apparatus and method John E. Mercer, Albert W. Chau 2021-01-19
10809099 Tracking positions of personnel, vehicles, and inanimate objects Rudolf Zeller, Albert W. Chau, John E. Mercer 2020-10-20
10746892 System for determining offset and orientation from a planar loop antenna John E. Mercer, Albert W. Chau, Rudolf Zeller 2020-08-18
10738588 Boring tool tracking fundamentally based on drill string length, pitch and roll James W. Burrows, John E. Mercer 2020-08-11
10584573 Advanced steering tool system, method and apparatus Albert W. Chau, Rudolf Zeller, John E. Mercer 2020-03-10
10422664 Tracking positions of personnel, vehicles, and inanimate objects Rudolf Zeller, Albert W. Chau, John E. Mercer 2019-09-24
10378334 Flux plane locating in an underground drilling system Albert W. Chau, John E. Mercer 2019-08-13
10273796 Advanced steering tool system, method and apparatus Albert W. Chau, Rudolf Zeller, John E. Mercer 2019-04-30
10254425 Locating arrangement and method using boring tool and cable locating signals Albert W. Chau, John E. Mercer 2019-04-09
10246985 Boring tool tracking fundamentally based on drill string length, pitch and roll James W. Burrows, John E. Mercer 2019-04-02
10107090 Advanced underground homing system, apparatus and method John E. Mercer, Albert W. Chau 2018-10-23
10107091 Flux plane locating in an underground drilling system Albert W. Chau, John E. Mercer 2018-10-23
10094946 Transmitter using a planar loop antenna for generating a locating signal John E. Mercer, Albert W. Chau, Rudolf Zeller 2018-10-09
9915747 Inground transmitter with roll orientation pattern based frequency change John E. Mercer 2018-03-13
9798032 Locating arrangement and method using boring tool and cable locating signals Albert W. Chau, John E. Mercer 2017-10-24
9777567 Advanced steering tool system, method and apparatus Albert W. Chau, Rudolf Zeller, John E. Mercer 2017-10-03
9683436 Flux plane locating in an underground drilling system Albert W. Chau, John E. Mercer 2017-06-20
9581717 Receiver using an approximated dipole signal John E. Mercer, Albert W. Chau, Rudolf Zeller 2017-02-28
9519074 Flux plane locating in an underground drilling system Albert W. Chau, John E. Mercer 2016-12-13
9513397 Tone detection apparatus and method John E. Mercer 2016-12-06