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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 10, 1999
Filed:
Oct. 28, 1998
Applicant:
Inventor:
Richard McCauley, Cleveland, TN (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G08G / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
340936 ; 414227 ; 414537 ;
Abstract
A surveillance apparatus and method for the surveillance of traffic are provided, in which the apparatus includes a housing for substantially completely enclosing and concealing a law enforcement vehicle therein, and a one-way window extending around part or nearly all of the housing, such that a vehicle operator in a vehicle inside the housing may visually monitor traffic, while the window prevents the vehicles in traffic from visually determining whether a vehicle is or is not present in the apparatus.