Patents by Inventor Luis Cristovão de Moraes Sobrino Porto

Luis Cristovão de Moraes Sobrino Porto 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).

  • Publication number: 20120011756
    Abstract: An intelligent gun-ammunition system for a portable gun includes a gun having a handle; an owner recognition circuit having circuitry for recognizing an authorized grip on the handle and an activating circuit for allowing operation of a firing mechanism of the gun when authorized grip is recognized; ammunition for the gun; and an ammunition circuit communicated with the owner recognition circuit for allowing the ammunition to be fired when the owner recognition circuit recognizes the authorized grip.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2011
    Publication date: January 19, 2012
    Inventors: Jose Carlos Albano Do Amarante, Roque Marcelo Versolato, Luis Cristovao de Moraes Sobrino Porto
  • Publication number: 20100287807
    Abstract: The invention presented in this work creates the possibility of a portable gun—revolver, pistol, carbine, riffle or hand-machine gun, to recognize its owner, in progressive levels of handling safety. Three levels of handling safety are established based on the evaluation of the grip force or its effect through material deformation or strain gage measurement. The first level of handling safety does not allow persons with grip force below a given limit, to shoot with a gun. The second level of handling safety enables the portable gun to recognize an individual as belonging to a smaller group than the first level. Now, the gun will only recognize for a successful firing an individual whose grip force, measured by one strain gage, fit into a small operational range, established and stored at the moment of acquisition by the owner. The third level of handling safety enables a portable gun to recognize an individual, as belonging to an even smaller group than in the second level.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2010
    Publication date: November 18, 2010
    Inventors: Jose Carlos Albano Do Amarante, Roque Marcelo Versolato, Luis Cristovao de Moraes Sobrino Porto
  • Patent number: 7698846
    Abstract: The invention presented in this work creates the possibility of a portable gun—revolver, pistol, carbine, riffle or hand-machine gun, to recognize its owner, in progressive levels of handling safety. Three levels of handling safety are established based on the evaluation of the grip force or its effect through material deformation or strain gage measurement. The first level of handling safety does not allow persons with grip force bellow a given limit, to shoot with a gun. The second level of handling safety enables the portable gun to recognize an individual as belonging to a smaller group than the first level. Now, the gun will only recognize for a successful firing an individual whose grip force, measured by one strain gage, fit into a small operational range, established and stored at the moment of acquisition by the owner. The third level of handling safety enables a portable gun to recognize an individual, as belonging to an even smaller group than in the second level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2010
    Inventors: José Carlos Albano Do Amarante, Roque Marcelo Versolato, Luis Cristovão de Moraes Sobrino Porto