Patents by Inventor Daniel Grant Thomas

Daniel Grant Thomas 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).

  • System and method for improving the security of storage of firearms and other objects, and for aiding the recovery of such if removed from storage
    Patent number: 6791451
    Abstract: A novel technique and system for improved monitoring of the storage security of firearms (and other objects) and, through a microprocessor radio-controlled transceiver embedded within the firearm, enabling detection of theft or removal, and then radio-tracking of the stolen firearm by police or others with continual identification of that firearm, and also with the further feature of providing automatic warning to schools or other public buildings or locations of the intrusion in their vicinity of a bearer carrying the stolen firearm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2004
    Inventors: Christopher Russell Muise, John Charles Holt, Daniel Grant Thomas
  • Method of and system for externally and remotely disabling stolen or unauthorized operated vehicles by pursuing police and the like
    Patent number: 6072248
    Abstract: A method of and system for enabling pursuing police cruisers or the like to remotely and safely stop the engine of an appropriately equipped stolen or improperly operated vehicle, wherein the cruiser transmits a control signal to a receiver pre-provided in the vehicle, to initiate, preferably through modified engine control modules, a forced and over-riding multiple-stage reduction in fuel supplied to the engine, first to slow down the vehicle below idling speed, and then to stall the engine by total fuel shut off.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 1998
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2000
    Inventors: Christopher Russel Muise, Daniel Grant Thomas