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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:
Jul. 25, 2000
Filed:
Oct. 02, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
Philip L Henry, Henderson, NV (US);
Richard E Barnett, Natick, MA (US);
Lou McKenna, Roseville, MN (US);
Assignee:
Strobe Detector Technologies, LLC, Henderson, NV (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G08G / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
340902 ; 340904 ; 359154 ; 359189 ; 701301 ;
Abstract
An apparatus for detecting vehicular speed monitoring signals and for detecting nearby emergency vehicles includes a first sensor for sensing modulated light from an emergency vehicle warning light and generating an alarm signal in response; a second sensor for sensing an incident vehicular speed monitoring signal and generating a ranging signal in response; and an alarm coupled to the first and second sensors for issuing an alarm in response to generation of any of the ranging signal and the alarm signal.