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Guenter W. Brune — 109 Patents

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Overall (All Time): #12,041 of 4,157,543Top 1%
109 Patents All Time

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Showing 76–100 of 109 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDate
7304479 Flux plane locating in an underground drilling system Albert W. Chau, John E. Mercer 2007-12-04
7218116 Boring tool tracking/guiding system and method with unconstrained target location geometry John E. Mercer, Albert W. Chau 2007-05-15
7209093 Locating technique and apparatus using an approximated dipole signal John E. Mercer, Albert W. Chau, Rudolf Zeller 2007-04-24
7176690 Flux plane locating in an underground drilling system Albert W. Chau, John E. Mercer 2007-02-13
7165632 Boring tool tracking fundamentally based on drill string length, pitch and roll James W. Burrows, John E. Mercer 2007-01-23
7159672 Mapping tool for tracking and/or guiding an underground boring tool John E. Mercer, Peter H. Hambling, Rudolf Zeller, Shiu S. Ng, Lloyd A. Moore 2007-01-09
7084636 Boring tool tracking/guiding system and method with unconstrained target location geometry John E. Mercer, Albert W. Chau 2006-08-01
7080698 Mapping tool for tracking and/or guiding an underground boring tool John E. Mercer, Peter H. Hambling, Rudolf Zeller, Shiu S. Ng, Lloyd A. Moore 2006-07-25
7021403 Method of 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 2006-04-04
7015697 Multi-frequency boring tool locating system and method John E. Mercer 2006-03-21
6975119 Boring tool tracking/guiding system and method with unconstrained target location geometry John E. Mercer, Albert W. Chau 2005-12-13
6963201 Flux plane locating in an underground drilling system Albert W. Chau, John E. Mercer 2005-11-08
6927741 Locating technique and apparatus using an approximated dipole signal John E. Mercer, Albert W. Chau, Rudolf Zeller 2005-08-09
6920943 Mapping tool for tracking and/or guiding an underground boring tool John E. Mercer, Peter H. Hambling, Rudolf Zeller, Shiu S. Ng, Lloyd A. Moore 2005-07-26
6917202 Boring tool tracking/guiding system and method with unconstrained target location geometry John E. Mercer, Albert W. Chau 2005-07-12
6868921 Boring tool tracking fundamentally based on drill string length, pitch and roll James W. Burrows, John E. Mercer 2005-03-22
6856135 Boring tool tracking/guiding system and method with unconstrained target location geometry John E. Mercer, Albert W. Chau 2005-02-15
6768307 Flux plane locating in an underground drilling system Albert W. Chau, John E. Mercer 2004-07-27
6756783 Multi-frequency boring tool locating system and method John E. Mercer 2004-06-29
6737867 Locating arrangement and method using boring tool and cable locating signals Albert W. Chau, John E. Mercer 2004-05-18
6727704 Boring tool tracking/guiding system and method with unconstrained target location geometry John E. Mercer, Albert W. Chau 2004-04-27
6668944 Path mapping in underground boring tool applications Peter H. Hambling, John E. Mercer, Lloyd A. Moore, Shiu S. Ng, Rudolf Zeller 2003-12-30
6653837 Dipole field locate point determination using a horizontal flux vector Albert W. Chau, John E. Mercer 2003-11-25
6640907 Mapping tool for tracking and/or guiding an underground boring tool John E. Mercer, Peter H. Hambling, Rudolf Zeller, Shiu S. Ng, Lloyd A. Moore 2003-11-04
6536538 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 2003-03-25