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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 28, 1996
Filed:
Feb. 01, 1991
Applicant:
Inventors:
Robert H Bayne, Kanata, CA;
Louis G Bouchard, Gloucester, CA;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G07C / ; G07C / ; G07C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
364569 ; 340679 ; 34082506 ; 34082507 ; 34082508 ; 34087016 ; 364550 ; 377 16 ;
Abstract
A monitoring system for automatically logging the accumulated operational hours of a plurality of instruments is disclosed herein. The monitoring system has the capability of monitoring a large number of instruments that may be remotely located. The monitoring system of the present invention is devised to continually monitor the on/off state of each instrument and hence measure the amount of time that each instrument is in an operational mode.