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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 51–75 of 109 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDate
7990152 Locating arrangement and method using boring tool and cable locating signals Albert W. Chau, John E. Mercer 2011-08-02
7967080 Boring tool tracking fundamentally based on drill string length, pitch and roll James W. Burrows, John E. Mercer 2011-06-28
7960973 Tracking positions of personnel, vehicles, and inanimate objects Rudolf Zeller, Albert W. Chau, John E. Mercer 2011-06-14
7956614 Flux plane locating in an underground drilling system Albert W. Chau, John E. Mercer 2011-06-07
7898494 Locating technique and apparatus using an approximated dipole signal John E. Mercer, Albert W. Chau, Rudolf Zeller 2011-03-01
7859249 Tracking positions of personnel, vehicles, and inanimate objects Rudolf Zeller, Albert W. Chau, John E. Mercer 2010-12-28
7834631 Locating arrangement and method using boring tool and cable locating signals Albert W. Chau, John E. Mercer 2010-11-16
7775301 Advanced steering tool system, method and apparatus Albert W. Chau, Rudolf Zeller, John E. Mercer 2010-08-17
7772849 Tracking positions of personnel, vehicles, and inanimate objects Rudolf Zeller, Albert W. Chau, John E. Mercer 2010-08-10
7768265 Flux plane locating in an underground drilling system Albert W. Chau, John E. Mercer 2010-08-03
7743848 Boring tool tracking fundamentally based on drill string length, pitch, and roll James W. Burrows, John E. Mercer 2010-06-29
7728595 Multi-frequency in-ground locating signal frequency code identification and apparatus John E. Mercer 2010-06-01
7663371 Flux plane locating in an underground drilling system Albert W. Chau, John E. Mercer 2010-02-16
7586307 Locating arrangement and method using boring tool and cable locating signals Albert W. Chau, John E. Mercer 2009-09-08
7570060 Tracking positions of personnel, vehicles, and inanimate objects Rudolf Zeller, Albert W. Chau, John E. Mercer 2009-08-04
7562722 Method and apparatus for establishing the position of a sonde in a region using a single detector Peter H. Hambling, John E. Mercer, Lloyd A. Moore, Shiu S. Ng, Rudolf Zeller 2009-07-21
7548065 Skin depth compensation for an in-ground transmitter John E. Mercer 2009-06-16
7472761 Boring tool tracking fundamentally based on drill string length, pitch and roll James W. Burrows, John E. Mercer 2009-01-06
7443359 Locating technique and apparatus using an approximated dipole signal John E. Mercer, Albert W. Chau, Rudolf Zeller 2008-10-28
7425829 Tracking positions of personnel, vehicles, and inanimate objects Rudolf Zeller, Albert W. Chau, John E. Mercer 2008-09-16
7403013 Boring tool tracking/guiding system and method with unconstrained target location geometry John E. Mercer, Albert W. Chau 2008-07-22
7391216 Locating arrangement and method using boring tool and cable locating signals Albert W. Chau, John E. Mercer 2008-06-24
7347280 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 2008-03-25
7327144 Multi-frequency boring tool locating system and method John E. Mercer 2008-02-05
7306053 Boring tool tracking fundamentally based on drill string length, pitch and roll James W. Burrows, John E. Mercer 2007-12-11