Patents by Inventor Jesse L. James

Jesse L. James 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).

  • Motorcycle safety device
    Patent number: 7832911
    Abstract: A motorcycle safety device includes a housing and a mount for coupling the housing to a motorcycle. A light assembly is removably coupled to the housing, the light assembly including a casing, a light positioned inside the casing, a lens coupled to the casing, and a battery positioned inside the casing. An input is in communication with the light to selectively cause the light to illuminate an area in front of the housing. A processor, tilt sensor, timer, and speaker are coupled to the housing, the tilt sensor and timer being in data communication with the processor. The processor includes programming to actuate at least one of the light and speaker upon the tilt sensor detecting a tilt event for a predetermined amount of time measured by the timer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2010
    Inventor: Jesse L. James
  • Motorcycle Safety Device
    Publication number: 20090268478
    Abstract: A motorcycle safety device includes a housing and a mount for coupling the housing to a motorcycle. A light assembly is removably coupled to the housing, the light assembly including a casing, a light positioned inside the casing, a lens coupled to the casing, and a battery positioned inside the casing. An input is in communication with the light to selectively cause the light to illuminate an area in front of the housing. A processor, tilt sensor, timer, and speaker are coupled to the housing, the tilt sensor and timer being in data communication with the processor. The processor includes programming to actuate at least one of the light and speaker upon the tilt sensor detecting a tilt event for a predetermined amount of time measured by the timer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2008
    Publication date: October 29, 2009
    Inventor: Jesse L. James
  • Interlocking suture
    Patent number: 4141363
    Abstract: A special type of suture tape for use in the medical field, and which holds a wound or laceration edges together for mending and healing; the device consisting of a pair of interlocking suture tapes, each of which has one end applied to the skin on each opposite side of the wound, the opposite ends of the tapes then being pulled in opposite directions so to draw the wound edges together so to close the wound, after which the other ends of the crossing tapes are pressed down against the skin, thus keeping the wound closed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 1975
    Date of Patent: February 27, 1979
    Inventors: Jesse L. James, George Spector