Prostar WKN: A2QQHR ISIN: CA74365J1021 Kürzel: MAPS Forum: Aktien User: Darkwing

So, hier die Antwort auf die Patentfrage. Der letzte Abschnitt ist der entscheidende. So I’ll limit this to the US patents—as they are somewhat more important than Canada, but we have one of our patents that has indeed expired, US6710741B2. The summary is: A method for determining positioning relative to utility lines. A first step involves providing a global positioning apparatus. A second step involves providing a processing unit with a display. The processing unit has stored in memory at least one geographical map depicting positioning of at least one utility line. A third step involves transferring data received from the global positioning apparatus to the processing unit and displaying on the display the positioning of the mobile machine relative to the at least one utility line on the at least one geographical map. This is mostly covered off in patent 8,081,112 which expires in 2026 A method and apparatus, including software, for the development and operational use of precise utility location and utility asset management information. Field-usable data sets may be produced that meet standards of accuracy and usability that are sufficient for use by field operations personnel participating in damage prevention activities associated with ground penetrating projects (e.g., excavating, trenching, boring, driving, and tunneling) or other asset applications. Some embodiments relate to integrating utility asset data including coordinate location, and geographical information data using a consistently available and accurate coordinates reference for collecting the data and for aligning the geographical information data. Some embodiments relate to managing projects with equipment that provides real time images and the updating of the data as required with this desired accuracy. Which is also additionally covered more thoroughly in 9,292,813, expires in 2036: A method and system for collecting information related to utility assets include determining a position of an underground utility asset by a location determining device; integrating location data from a Global positioning system (GPS) receiver with the determined position of the underground utility asset to provide information about coordinates of the position of the underground utility asset; adding characteristics of the underground utility asset including a size of the underground utility asset, to the integrated data to generate one or more data records including the information about coordinates of the position of the underground utility asset; integrating landbase data with the data records for the underground utility asset; and displaying a scrolling map including the data records and a portion of the landbase data.  Our patents were first written prior to smartphones being ubiquitous, the more recent patent that expires in 2036 covers of all of the equipment currently in use for measuring utilities, and our most recent patent 10,671,650 contemplates database management around utilities depth measurements.  The patents that are most relevant to our IP and database management system are the ones most recently filed