Baghdad Bob: Ignore Cole. You'd probably have to search for the patent on the German Patent Office site. the company gave us the registration # in this news release (my bold):
Sanswire Partner Tao Technologies Files Patent Application Covering New Airship Design Mon Jul 28, 2008 10:41am EDT FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., July 28, 2008 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- Sanswire-TAO Corp., the joint venture equally owned by TAO Technologies GmbH and the Sanswire subsidiary of GlobeTel Communications Corp. (Pink Sheets:GTEM), today announced that Dr. Bernd Kroplin, president of TAO Technologies, filed a patent application in Germany for "Segmented Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Equipped With Energy Medium." A registration number of 10 2008 002 939.4 was assigned to the patent.
Dr. Bernd Kroplin and TAO Technologies concurrently filed an application for the invention under the PCT or Patent Cooperation Treaty, for international protection in the majority of the world's countries, including all of the major industrialized ones. The technology protected under the patent and to be transferred to Sanswire-TAO for registration in the US, Canada and Mexico distinguishes the Sanswire-TAO's lighter than air (LTA) unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) program from all competitors.
"This new concept represents a complete re-thinking of airship design," said Jonathan Leinwand, Chief Executive Officer of GlobeTel Communications, "For years, Dr. Kroplin, inventor of the segmented design, has been challenged with developing a technology superior to previous high-altitude designs ranging from lighter than air blimp shaped airships to heavier than air fixed wing designs, and after nearly 15 years of development and thousands of test flights we have enormous confidence in his revolutionary design."
Leinwand continued, "Many programs have been working on high altitude long endurance platforms to meet the demands of today's world, but no design has been able to successfully remain in the stratosphere for an extended duration. Sanswire and TAO will demonstrate that long endurance stratospheric flight is possible."
Sanswire-TAO intends to file a utility patent for the "Segmented Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Equipped With Energy Medium" with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) under the guidelines provided by PCT.
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