Patents Represented by Attorney J. Douglas Wells
  • Patent number: 8342713
    Abstract: A method of lighting for use in motion picture and video production including, in various embodiments, the steps: providing lighting modules, each having one or more manual controls for controlling light output characteristics such as the intensity and hue of light produced and each capable of wirelessly communicating with other lighting modules over a wireless data network; interconnecting the lighting modules on the wireless data network; and adjusting the light produced by all lighting modules through adjustments using any one of the networked lighting modules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: Zylight LLC
    Inventors: James H. Collias, Charles H. Collias, Nicholas J. Foster
  • Patent number: 8167457
    Abstract: An illumination system suitable for lighting in connection with the production of film or video includes one or more lighting modules, wherein each module contains a light engine, a heat sink to which the light engine is affixed, and a control system electrically connected to the light engine, the control system capable of adjusting both the color and intensity of light engine by means of one or more rotary concentric control knobs and pushbuttons affixed to the control system, and wherein the control systems of each module are interconnected by a wireless data network, so that all of the modules may be controlled by using the rotary control unit on any individual module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2012
    Assignee: Zylight LLC
    Inventors: James H Collias, Charles H Collias, Nicholas J Forster
  • Patent number: 7082775
    Abstract: A method and system for relief of heat exhaustion symptoms through evaporative and conductive cooling is provided, and, more particularly, involves a rapidly deployable mobile fogging system suitably designed for relief of heat exhaustion symptoms, including a mobile platform for transporting the rapidly deployable mobile fogging system to locations where relief of heat exhaustion symptoms is needed, one or more fogging nozzles disposed on the mobile platform and oriented for dispensing a cooling pocket area of fog adjacent to the mobile platform, a coolant delivery system fluidly connected to the one or more fogging nozzles, and one or more controls for regulating the dispensing of the cooling pocket area of fog. In one embodiment, the rapidly deployable mobile fogging system comprises an emergency response vehicle. In one embodiment, the emergency response vehicle comprises a fire truck.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2006
    Assignee: Emergency Water Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Tim L. Edwards, Jeffrey B. Weber
  • Patent number: D663145
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2012
    Assignee: Videx, Inc.
    Inventor: Paul R. Davis
  • Patent number: D663146
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2012
    Assignee: Videx, Inc.
    Inventor: Paul R. Davis
  • Patent number: D666515
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2012
    Assignee: Universal Enterprises, Incorporated
    Inventors: Michael John Kane, Sean Patrick Tierney, David Lauren Wheaton
  • Patent number: D670117
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: Videx, Inc.
    Inventor: Paul R. Davis
  • Patent number: D670118
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: Videx, Inc.
    Inventor: Paul R. Davis