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Guenter W. Brune — 109 Patents

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Bellevue, WA: #43 of 6,950 inventorsTop 1%
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Overall (All Time): #12,041 of 4,157,543Top 1%
109 Patents All Time

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Showing 26–50 of 109 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDate
9507046 Locating arrangement and method using boring tool and cable locating signals Albert W. Chau, John E. Mercer 2016-11-29
9422804 Advanced underground homing system, apparatus and method John E. Mercer, Albert W. Chau 2016-08-23
9371725 Boring tool tracking fundamentally based on drill string length, pitch and roll James W. Burrows, John E. Mercer 2016-06-21
9360579 Advanced steering tool system, method and apparatus Albert W. Chau, Rudolf Zeller, John E. Mercer 2016-06-07
9310507 Tracking positions of personnel, vehicles, and inanimate objects Rudolf Zeller, Albert W. Chau, John E. Mercer 2016-04-12
9291738 Flux plane locating in an underground drilling system Albert W. Chau, John E. Mercer 2016-03-22
9261621 Locating arrangement and method using boring tool and cable locating signals Albert W. Chau, John E. Mercer 2016-02-16
9244189 Advanced steering tool system, method and apparatus Albert W. Chau, Rudolf Zeller, John E. Mercer 2016-01-26
9133703 Advanced steering tool system, method and apparatus Albert W. Chau, Rudolf Zeller, John E. Mercer 2015-09-15
9035656 Tracking positions of personnel, vehicles, and inanimate objects Rudolf Zeller, Albert W. Chau, John E. Mercer 2015-05-19
8754648 Boring tool locating signal frequency tracking apparatus John E. Mercer 2014-06-17
8686917 Locating technique and apparatus using an approximated dipole signal John E. Mercer, Albert W. Chau, Rudolf Zeller 2014-04-01
8686731 Tracking positions of personnel, vehicles, and inanimate objects Rudolf Zeller, Albert W. Chau, John E. Mercer 2014-04-01
8680864 Flux plane locating in an underground drilling system Albert W. Chau, John E. Mercer 2014-03-25
8674700 Locating arrangement and method using boring tool and cable locating signals Albert W. Chau, John E. Mercer 2014-03-18
8668030 Establishing positions of locating field detectors and path mapping in underground boring tool applications Peter H. Hambling, John E. Mercer, Lloyd A. Moore, Shiu S. Ng, Rudolf Zeller 2014-03-11
8659298 Advanced steering tool system, method and apparatus Albert W. Chau, Rudolf Zeller, John E. Mercer 2014-02-25
8622150 Boring tool tracking fundamentally based on drill string length, pitch and roll James W. Burrows, John E. Mercer 2014-01-07
8393414 Establishing positions of locating field detectors and path mapping in underground boring tool applications Peter H. Hambling, John E. Mercer, Lloyd A. Moore, Shiu S. Ng, Rudolf Zeller 2013-03-12
8381836 Advanced underground homing system, apparatus and method John E. Mercer, Albert W. Chau 2013-02-26
8342262 Boring tool tracking fundamentally based on drill string length, pitch and roll James W. Burrows, John E. Mercer 2013-01-01
8264419 Locating technique and apparatus using an approximated dipole signal John E. Mercer, Albert W. Chau, Rudolf Zeller 2012-09-11
8157023 Boring tool tracking fundamentally based on drill string length, pitch and roll James W. Burrows, John E. Mercer 2012-04-17
8025109 Method for establishing the positions of a transmitter and detector in a region Peter H. Hambling, John E. Mercer, Lloyd A. Moore, Shiu S. Ng, Rudolf Zeller 2011-09-27
7990150 Multifrequency locating arrangement with frequency designation John E. Mercer 2011-08-02