Patents Assigned to ZTOA Innovations, LLC
  • Patent number: 7924165
    Abstract: An Electronic Shark Deterrent provides protection from, and for, sharks and other aquatic creatures. Compact low power circuitry generates high voltage periodic pulse train bursts, disturbing the electroreceptors of the aquatic Elasmobranchi subclass. A train of thirty 33 us 250 Volt (V) electric pulses lasting one second is produced every six seconds. The device is fully portable, requiring no bulky activity impeding buoys, cords, or external power supplies. Advanced circuitry is compact enough to be worn on a watch sized band or attached to garments and recreation or safety equipment. The deterrent can be used in a fixed configuration to protect fish farms and vacation resort swimming areas. It can be affixed to offshore oil rigs and research stations to protect workers. The Electronic Shark Deterrent is compact and portable enough to be used on longlines, trawls and gillnets to reduce the numbers of endangered aquatic creatures unnecessarily destroyed as bycatch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2011
    Assignee: ZTOA Innovations, LLC
    Inventors: Wilson Vinano, Jr., Calvin Maeda, Gary Maeda, Dwight Oda
  • Patent number: D686688
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2013
    Assignee: ZTOA Innovations, LLC
    Inventor: Wilson Vinano