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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:
Dec. 28, 1999
Filed:
Sep. 10, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Christopher J Vecchio, Broomall, PA (US);
Ian E Kibblewhite, Strafford, PA (US);
Donald E Kotas, Blue Bell, PA (US);
Assignee:
Ultrafast, Inc., Malvern, PA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01H / ; G01H / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
702142 ; 702143 ; 702149 ; 73597 ; 73589 ; 73627 ; 73761 ; 367 87 ;
Abstract
A method of measuring in a material a time-of flight of a signal having a first signal burst and a second signal burst, the first signal burst having a first set of cycles and the second signal burst having a second set of cycles. The method includes identifying a cycle in the second signal burst corresponding to a cycle in the first signal burst, to measure the time-of-flight of the signal.