Patents by Inventor Mark Henry Wojcik
Mark Henry Wojcik 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).
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Patent number: 9829480Abstract: A portable handheld wireless breath alcohol monitoring device (RBAM) utilizes facial recognition from an enrollment image or gallery of images accumulated over time, and automatic retesting if an initial test is positive for alcohol or of an initial facial match is negative. A location fix is captured with each breath test taken by an offender. After each breath test, the breath alcohol content (BrAC), date and time of the breath test, facial image data, and location fix are uploaded through a built-in cellular phone module in the RBAM to a monitoring station. The monitoring station evaluates each breath test and determines if immediate notification to a supervising agency is needed. If so, an email, text message, or page is sent to the supervising agency. RBAM enables the monitoring of lower-risk offenders or offenders who have earned the privilege of a less intrusive alcohol testing and monitoring program.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2015Date of Patent: November 28, 2017Assignee: ALCOHOL MONITORING SYSTEMS, INC.Inventors: Mark Henry Wojcik, Gary Alan Shoffner, Gordon William Murray, Gregory Jerome Morton, Matthew Paul Zenthoefer
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Publication number: 20150212063Abstract: A portable handheld wireless breath alcohol monitoring device (RBAM) utilizes facial recognition from an enrollment image or gallery of images accumulated over time, and automatic retesting if an initial test is positive for alcohol or of an initial facial match is negative. A location fix is captured with each breath test taken by an offender. After each breath test, the breath alcohol content (BrAC), date and time of the breath test, facial image data, and location fix are uploaded through a built-in cellular phone module in the RBAM to a monitoring station. The monitoring station evaluates each breath test and determines if immediate notification to a supervising agency is needed. If so, an email, text message, or page is sent to the supervising agency. RBAM enables the monitoring of lower-risk offenders or offenders who have earned the privilege of a less intrusive alcohol testing and monitoring program.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 16, 2015Publication date: July 30, 2015Inventors: Mark Henry Wojcik, Gary Alan Shoffner, Gordon William Murray, Gregory Jerome Morton, Matthew Paul Zenthoefer
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Publication number: 20150084774Abstract: A portable handheld wireless breath alcohol monitoring device (RBAM) utilizes facial recognition and automatic retesting if an initial test is positive for alcohol or of an initial facial match is negative. A location fix is captured with each breath test taken by an offender. After each breath test, the breath alcohol content (BrAC), date and time of the breath test, facial image data, and location fix are uploaded through a built-in cellular phone module in the RBAM to a monitoring station. The monitoring station evaluates each breath test and determines if immediate notification to a supervising agency is needed. If so, an email, text message, or page is sent to the supervising agency. RBAM enables the monitoring of lower-risk offenders or offenders who have earned the privilege of a less intrusive alcohol testing and monitoring program.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2013Publication date: March 26, 2015Inventors: Mark Henry Wojcik, Gary Alan Shoffner, Gordon William Murray, Glenn Charles Tubb
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Patent number: 8165824Abstract: An improvement in monitoring alcohol levels through transdermal testing is provided by detecting if environmental gasses, referred to as interferents, have been introduced into a transdermal vapor sample. An insensible skin perspiration sample may not be completely controlled and can contain interferents from an environmental source rather than the subject. Before testing a skin perspiration sample, the alcohol sensor is sampled and averaged to establish a baseline value. A sample is drawn and presented to the alcohol sensor. The output of the alcohol sensor is monitored to determine the amount of alcohol in the sample. A maximum alcohol sensor value for the transdermal alcohol monitor is set by determining the baseline value when no alcohol is present in the sample. Subsequent baseline values during a reading above the maximum alcohol sensor value indicate that an environmental interferent is present in the alcohol sensor.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2009Date of Patent: April 24, 2012Assignee: Alcohol Monitoring Systems, Inc.Inventors: Michael Leonard Iiams, Ben Franklin Houston, Royce Alan McDonald, Jeffrey Scott Hawthorne, Mark Henry Wojcik, Gordon William Murray, Charles Thomas Champion
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Publication number: 20110015873Abstract: An improvement in monitoring alcohol levels through transdermal testing is provided by detecting if environmental gasses, referred to as interferents, have been introduced into a transdermal vapor sample. An insensible skin perspiration sample may not be completely controlled and can contain interferents from an environmental source rather than the subject. Before testing a skin perspiration sample, the alcohol sensor is sampled and averaged to establish a baseline value. A sample is drawn and presented to the alcohol sensor. The output of the alcohol sensor is monitored to determine the amount of alcohol in the sample. A maximum alcohol sensor value for the transdermal alcohol monitor is set by determining the baseline value when no alcohol is present in the sample. Subsequent baseline values during a reading above the maximum alcohol sensor value indicate that an environmental interferent is present in the alcohol sensor.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 14, 2009Publication date: January 20, 2011Applicant: Alcohol Monitoring Systems, Inc.Inventors: Michael Leonard Iiams, Ben Franklin Houston, Royce Alan McDonald, Jeffrey Scott Hawthorne, Mark Henry Wojcik, Gordon William Murray, Charles Thomas Champion
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Publication number: 20090182216Abstract: Moisture may build up inside an alcohol monitor that is securely attached to a human subject due to the inlet air from the subject's skin surface which constantly emits water vapor in the form of insensible skin perspiration. As the warm moist air which has very high humidity flows along the air flow path through decreasing temperatures within the alcohol monitor, moisture will be removed from the air through condensation. The condensation problem is solved by lowering the humidity level in the air sample by mixing the very humid air sample from the body with less humid ambient air, which increases the dew point for condensation. Increasing the dew point in the air sample means that there must be a greater change in temperature along the air flow path of the air sample in order to cause the moisture in the air sample to condense and become water.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 14, 2008Publication date: July 16, 2009Inventors: William James Roushey, III, Jeffrey Scott Hawthorne, Mark Henry Wojcik, David Cain Collins, Steven Keith McGee
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Publication number: 20080009693Abstract: Moisture buildup inside an alcohol monitor that is securely attached to a human subject is due to the inlet air from the subject's skin surface, which constantly emits water vapor in the form of insensible skin perspiration. As the warm moist air flows along the air flow path through decreasing temperatures within the alcohol monitor, moisture will be removed from the air through condensation. The present invention solves this condensation problem by first simplifying the air flow path, eliminating barriers that can trap water. Second, additional changes to the air flow path take advantage of gravity, allowing water to drain out of the alcohol monitor. Third, by better balancing the volume of air sample between the sample collection chamber and the fuel cell sample chamber, the total volume of air taken in is reduced, resulting in an overall reduction in the volume of potential moisture introduced into the alcohol monitor.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 16, 2006Publication date: January 10, 2008Inventors: Jeffrey Scott Hawthorne, Mark Henry Wojcik, William James Roushey, David Cain Collins