Appeal No. 2001-2035
Application No. 09/071,806
heart and conductive nerves, whether or not there are obscuring
material structures. While the prior art detected animate
objects by measuring changes in an electrostatic field, the
instant invention uses a force resulting from the non-uniform
electric field squared spatial gradient three-dimensional pattern
exhibited uniquely by an entity to indicate the precise location
and line-of-bearing direction of the entity relative to a human
operator of the inventive device. Employing the principles of
dielectrophoresis, a force is induced and subsequent resulting
torque on an antenna and other component parts of the device give
a rapid line-of-bearing directional location indication of the
subject entity.
Representative independent claim 1 is reproduced as follows:
1. A locating device comprising a polarization unit that
detects a polarization charge pattern by a manifested
dielectrophoresis force in accordance with a spatially non-
uniform electric field exhibited by a target entity.
The examiner relies on the following reference:
Bakhoum 5,300,889 Apr. 5, 1994
Claims 1, 7 and 10-12 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(b)
as anticipated by Bakhoum.
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