Patents by Inventor Lee Roy Carstensen

Lee Roy Carstensen 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).

  • Patent number: 10827742
    Abstract: An electrical deterrent system and method including a pulse generator, power source, and substrates with accompanying electrodes for attaching to different types of surfaces and supports on various manufactured structures to repel pinnipeds from a manufactured or man-made structure that otherwise is not intended for pinniped use. The system is repeatable, controllable and scalable and includes docking type interchangeable sections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Inventor: Lee Roy Carstensen
  • Patent number: 10334841
    Abstract: An electrical deterrent system including a pulse generator, power source, and substrates with accompanying electrodes for attaching to different types of surfaces and supports on various manufactured structures to repel pinnipeds from a manufactured or man-made structure that otherwise is not intended for pinniped use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Inventor: Lee Roy Carstensen
  • Patent number: 9596836
    Abstract: An aquatic electrical barrier that has the electrodes configured in a matrix array configuration, where each electrode element of the matrix array is mounted either directly on the bottom of a water channel or on extendable rods; the matrix array is controlled so that aquatic species may be physically moved by the aquatic species physiological response to a time-varying and spatially-varying electrical field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2017
    Assignee: SMITH ROOT, INC.
    Inventors: Lee Roy Carstensen, John Parkin
  • Patent number: 9532576
    Abstract: A system and method to induce fish anesthetizing or narcosis is described that induces a potential field across the body of a laboratory fish having a pair of electrodes, the waveform generated by this potential field is approximately balanced to reduce the introduction of anions into the solution, and a camera is mounted to observe the activity of the fish, so that the potential difference may be adjusted based on the state of the fish.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignee: SMITH-ROOT, INC.
    Inventors: Michael F Holliman, Lee Roy Carstensen
  • Publication number: 20160324139
    Abstract: An electrical deterrent system including a pulse generator, power source, and substrates with accompanying electrodes for attaching to different types of surfaces and supports on various manufactured structures to repel pinnipeds from a manufactured or man-made structure that otherwise is not intended for pinniped use.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2016
    Publication date: November 10, 2016
    Inventor: Lee Roy Carstensen
  • Publication number: 20160095325
    Abstract: A system and method to induce fish anesthetizing or narcosis is described that induces a potential field across the body of a laboratory fish having a pair of electrodes, the waveform generated by this potential field is approximately balanced to reduce the introduction of anions into the solution, and a camera is mounted to observe the activity of the fish, so that the potential difference may be adjusted based on the state of the fish.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2015
    Publication date: April 7, 2016
    Inventors: Michael F. Holliman, Lee Roy Carstensen
  • Patent number: 9210942
    Abstract: A system and method to induce fish anesthetizing or narcosis is described that induces a potential field across the body of a laboratory fish having a pair of electrodes, the waveform generated by this potential field is approximately balanced to reduce the introduction of anions into the solution, and a camera is mounted to observe the activity of the fish, so that the potential difference may be adjusted based on the state of the fish.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: Smith-Root, Inc.
    Inventors: F. Michael Holliman, Lee Roy Carstensen
  • Publication number: 20150201590
    Abstract: Described herein is an aquatic electrical barrier that has the electrodes configured in a matrix array configuration, where each electrode element of the matrix array is mounted either directly on the bottom of a water channel or on extendable rods; the matrix array is controlled so that aquatic species may be physically moved by the aquatic species physiological response to a time-varying and spatially-varying electrical field.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2013
    Publication date: July 23, 2015
    Inventors: Lee Roy Carstensen, John Parkin
  • Publication number: 20110174231
    Abstract: The inventive subject matter describes systems and methods for the remote placement of electrified fish barriers are illustrated and described herein. The inventive subject matter describes a floating electrical barrier that is responsive to the presence of detected fish. The inventive subject matter also describes a multiplicity of electrical barriers that are arranged to create an electrical field that entrains certain species of fish. The inventive subject matter also describes a movable barrier that is used to guide fish from location to location using electrical fields.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2011
    Publication date: July 21, 2011
    Inventors: Joseph Curtis Edmondson, Lee Roy Carstensen, Michael Holliman
  • Publication number: 20100107986
    Abstract: A system and method to induce fish anesthetizing or narcosis is described that induces a potential field across the body of a laboratory fish having a pair of electrodes, the waveform generated by this potential field is approximately balanced to reduce the introduction of anions into the solution, and a camera is mounted to observe the activity of the fish, so that the potential difference may be adjusted based on the state of the fish.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2008
    Publication date: May 6, 2010
    Inventors: F. Michael Holliman, Lee Roy Carstensen
  • Patent number: 6978734
    Abstract: An electric fish barrier for deterring fish from entering a water intake in a reservoir or along a waterway has a set of conductive members at a first voltage potential and a second set of conductive members at a second voltage potential. The conductive members are disposed on support piles extending up from the bottom of the reservoir. Each conductive member extends vertically between a pre-determined range of depths from an upper depth to a lower depth, forming a contiguous voltage gradient between the two sets of conductive members. Fish are drawn to the attraction flow of water flowing into the intake. The two sets of conductive members are oriented such that the attraction flow passes through the contiguous voltage gradient, thereby deterring the fish from following the attraction flow into the water intake.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2005
    Assignee: Smith-Root, Inc.
    Inventors: David V. Smith, Lee Roy Carstensen
  • Patent number: D776366
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2017
    Assignee: SMITH-ROOT, INC
    Inventor: Lee Roy Carstensen