Patents by Inventor Christopher Wallace Baldwin

Christopher Wallace Baldwin has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20110090084
    Abstract: Systems and methods inhibit locomotion of a human or animal target in a denial zone. Acquiring the target includes forming a prediction of at least two locations of impact on the target and testing the prediction according to criteria that may include whether the locations are within a boundary corresponding to the target and whether the locations are separated by a minimum physical and/or electrical distance. The two locations may serve for conducting a current through the target for impeding locomotion by the target. The current may be repeated in response to determining that locomotion was not sufficiently impeded. Determination may depend on analysis of video of the target.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2010
    Publication date: April 21, 2011
    Inventors: Kevin Williams, Nache D. Shekarri, Christopher Wallace Baldwin
  • Patent number: 7886648
    Abstract: Systems and methods inhibit locomotion of a human or animal target in a denial zone. Acquiring the target includes forming a prediction of at least two locations of impact on the target and testing the prediction according to criteria that may include whether the locations are within a boundary corresponding to the target and whether the locations are separated by a minimum physical and/or electrical distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2011
    Inventors: Kevin Williams, Christopher Wallace Baldwin, Nache D. Shekarri
  • Patent number: 7673411
    Abstract: A method is performed by an electronic weapon system. The electronic weapon system is aimed in a first direction toward a target. The method includes, deploying an electrode of the system in a second direction different from the first direction, to compensate for drag of a tether wire deployed with the electrode. For example, a tether wire deployed from a tether wire store located adjacent to a cavity from which the electrode is propelled may exert a drag force causing inaccuracies of the propelled electrode. Compensation is accomplished, for example, by virtue of shaping the cavity. Compensation improves accuracy of the electrode striking the target.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2010
    Assignee: TASER International, Inc.
    Inventor: Christopher Wallace Baldwin
  • Publication number: 20100050856
    Abstract: A method is performed by an electronic weapon system. The electronic weapon system is aimed in a first direction toward a target. The method includes, deploying an electrode of the system in a second direction different from the first direction, to compensate for drag of a tether wire deployed with the electrode. For example, a tether wire deployed from a tether wire store located adjacent to a cavity from which the electrode is propelled may exert a drag force causing inaccuracies of the propelled electrode. Compensation is accomplished, for example, by virtue of shaping the cavity. Compensation improves accuracy of the electrode striking the target.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2006
    Publication date: March 4, 2010
    Inventor: Christopher Wallace Baldwin
  • Publication number: 20090020002
    Abstract: Systems and methods inhibit locomotion of a human or animal target in a denial zone. Acquiring the target includes forming a prediction of at least two locations of impact on the target and testing the prediction according to criteria that may include whether the locations are within a boundary corresponding to the target and whether the locations are separated by a minimum physical and/or electrical distance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2007
    Publication date: January 22, 2009
    Inventors: Kevin Williams, Nache D. Shekarri, Christopher Wallace Baldwin