Patents by Inventor Rod DeMille

Rod DeMille 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).

  • Method of an apparatus for sensing the unauthorized movement of vehicles and the like and generating an alarm or warning of vehicle theft
    Patent number: 7973649
    Abstract: An improved motion sensing and alarm technique and apparatus for monitoring unauthorized movement of vehicles or the like and notifying the owner thereof, wherein the motion sensors in the vehicle are microprocessor controlled to be automatically armed when the owner is not in the vicinity of the vehicle, but disarmed or de-activated in the presence of the owner and the owner's radio-coded identification transmitter associated with the owner's key fob, and with energy saving features as well.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2011
    Assignee: Lojack Operating Company LP
    Inventor: Rod DeMille
  • Method of an apparatus for sensing the unauthorized movement of vehicles and the like and generating an alarm or warning of vehicle theft
    Publication number: 20100277296
    Abstract: An improved motion sensing and alarm technique and apparatus for monitoring unauthorized movement of vehicles or the like and notifying the owner thereof, wherein the motion sensors in the vehicle are microprocessor controlled to be automatically armed when the owner is not in the vicinity of the vehicle, but disarmed or de-activated in the presence of the owner and the owner's radio-coded identification transmitter associated with the owner's key fob, and with energy saving features as well.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2002
    Publication date: November 4, 2010
    Inventor: Rod DeMille
  • Methods of and system for portable cellular phone voice communication and positional location data communication using the cellular phone network control channel
    Patent number: 6876858
    Abstract: A novel method of and system for enabling the use of one portable cellular phone only, in voice communication with a cellular network control center for voice-requesting position or location data services, and, with the aid of a vehicle GPS-transponder activated in response to signaling from the control center over cellular network channel control paths, to receive and process at the vehicle GPS location data from satellites, and to transmit the data over the said channel control paths to the control center, for then sending therefrom to the user of the portable cellular phone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2005
    Assignee: LoJack Operating Company, LP
    Inventors: William Duvall, Rod DeMille
  • Method and system for portable cellular phone voice communication and positional location data communication
    Patent number: 6847825
    Abstract: A novel method of and system for enabling the use of one portable cellular phone only in voice communication over a radio voice channel with a cellular network control center for voice-requesting position or location data or other services; and, with the aid of a vehicle GPS-transpoder activated in response to signaling from the control center over a separate radio-data channel path, to receive and process at the vehicle GPS location,data from satellites, and to transmit the location data over the said data control path to the control center; and for then sending such data and information therefrom to the user of the portable cellular phone—the system being also adaptable for use by dispatcher managers of fleets of vehicles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2000
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2005
    Assignee: LoJack Corporation
    Inventors: William Duvall, Rod DeMille