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      02-01-2011, 06:11 PM   #39
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ersin,

Valentine has no patent on rear facing antenna in a seperate housing. His patent is for shared circuitry. You can't patent seperate discrete modules. I am sure K40 just sells 2 discrete antennas and they don't do the fancy comparisons which may be patented.
Yeah man. I'm really curious now to find out exactly what they're doing and if they even have a patent.

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In any event, I love my radar even though I dream of a stealth V1 or 9500 (with discrete front and rear sensing). Saved my ass many times with the rear warning....
A stealthier V1, Redline or STI (wait, that would be the STI-R) would be nice. But not required. I have ideas for how I would do it, like mount several separate radar and (miniature) laser "antenna" all around outside the vehicle. I don't design these things though. I only dream of the perfect detector, which doesn't, and probably never will, exist.


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