Patents by Inventor Stephen Conboy

Stephen Conboy 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).

  • Patent number: 11395931
    Abstract: A method of and wireless mobile information network for managing the application of a clean fire and smoke inhibiting slurry composition containing clean fire inhibiting chemicals, and cellulose or wood fiber, mixed with water and other additives, on surfaces including ground surfaces in advance of wild fire, to blanket grounds from wildfire ignition, and also application over smoldering ambers and ashes to prevent re-ignition while reducing (i) the use of significant amounts of water, (ii) the production of toxic run off water, and (iii) toxic smoke.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: MIGHTY FIRE BREAKER LLC
    Inventor: Stephen Conboy
  • Publication number: 20220134151
    Abstract: A wild fire defense system network for defending homes and neighborhoods against threat of wild fire by proactively spraying environmentally-safe anti-fire (AF) chemical liquid on property surfaces. The wild fire defense system network includes: a command center in operably communication with a wireless communication network; one or more GPS-tracked anti-fire liquid spraying systems, each having an integrated supply tank and a spray pump deployable at properties for spraying the properties with environmentally-clean anti-fire chemical liquid using a spray nozzle assembly connected to the spray pump by way of a fluid connection; and a GPS system for transmitting GPS reference signals transmitted from a constellation of GPS satellites deployed in orbit around the Earth, to a GPS transceiver installed aboard each GPS-tracking anti-fire liquid spraying system, for GPS signal processing and GPS-coordinate location.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2021
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Applicant: M-Fire Holdings LLC
    Inventor: Stephen Conboy
  • Publication number: 20220126137
    Abstract: A method of proactively protecting property and buildings constructed thereon from wild fire by spraying environmentally-clean anti-fire (AF) chemical liquid prior to the arrival of wild fires. Intelligence data is remotely collected relating to risks of wild fires in specified regions, and maintained in a network database, and used to generate anti-fire (AF) spray protection maps and task reports for execution in the specified region. Prior to the arrival of a wild fire to the region, and based on the GPS-specified anti-fire (AF) spray protection maps and task reports, application servers deployed on a wireless system network issue a request or order to the property owner, or its registered contractor, to apply clean AF chemical liquid spray on the GPS-specified parcel of property using a GPS-specified AF chemical liquid spraying system, so as to proactively protect the property prior to presence of wild fire.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2021
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Applicant: M-Fire Holdings LLC
    Inventor: Stephen Conboy
  • Publication number: 20220126144
    Abstract: A GPS tracking and mapping wild fire defense system network configured for defending homes and neighborhoods against threat of wild fire by proactively spraying environmentally-safe anti-fire (AF) chemical liquid on property surfaces to inhibit fire ignition and flame spread in the presence of wild fire. The GPS tracking and mapping wild fire defense system network includes: a command center in operable communication with a wireless communication network; and one or more GPS-tracked mobile anti-fire liquid spraying systems, each having an integrated supply tank and a spray pump deployable at properties having building structures, for spraying the properties with environmentally-clean anti-fire chemical liquid using a spray nozzle assembly connected to said spray pump by way of a fluid connection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2021
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Applicant: M-Fire Holdings LLC
    Inventor: Stephen Conboy
  • Publication number: 20220126136
    Abstract: A wireless wild fire defense system network supporting proactive protection of life and property in GPS-specified neighborhoods using GPS-managed delivery of environmentally-clean anti-fire (AF) chemical liquid spray to property before wild fire reaches the neighborhoods. The wireless system network includes a GPS system for providing GPS-location services to each system components in the wireless system network. A wireless communication network supports one or more network databases accessible by systems and devices deployed on the wireless communication network. A fleet of mobile GPS-tracked anti-fire liquid spraying systems are assigned to GPS-specified neighborhoods for spraying anti-fire chemical liquid on combustible property, buildings, and ground cover to inhibit fire ignition and flame spread wherever the anti-fire chemical liquid is sprayed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2021
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Applicant: M-Fire Holdings LLC
    Inventor: Stephen Conboy
  • Publication number: 20220126142
    Abstract: A method of proactively defending combustible property against fire ignition and flame spread in the presence of wild fire. The method involves establishing wireless communication between a GPS-tracking anti-fire (AF) chemical liquid spraying system, and a wireless communication network supporting a network database. The GPS-tracking anti-fire chemical liquid spraying system is used to spray an environmentally-clean anti-fire chemical liquid over the exterior surfaces of a GPS-specified combustible parcel of property, and generating a GPS-coordinate and time/date stamped data records pertaining to the application of the environmentally-clean anti-fire chemical liquid spray over the exterior surfaces of the GPS-specified combustible parcel of property. The GPS-coordinate and time/date stamped data records are transmitted over the wireless communication network for storage in the network database.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2021
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Applicant: M-Fire Holdings LLC
    Inventor: Stephen Conboy
  • Publication number: 20220126140
    Abstract: A GPS tracking and mapping wild fire defense system network configured for defending homes and neighborhoods against threat of wild fire by proactively spraying environmentally-safe anti-fire (AF) chemical liquid on property surfaces to inhibit fire ignition and flame spread in the presence of wild fire. The GPS tracking and mapping wild fire defense system network includes: a command center in operable communication with a wireless communication network; and one or more GPS-tracked anti-fire liquid spraying systems, each having an integrated supply tank and a spray pump deployable at properties having building structures, for spraying the properties with environmentally-clean anti-fire chemical liquid using a spray nozzle assembly connected to said spray pump by way of a fluid connection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2021
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Applicant: M-Fire Holdings LLC
    Inventor: Stephen Conboy
  • Publication number: 20220126143
    Abstract: A method of forming and maintaining GPS tracked and mapped environmentally-clean chemical-based firebreaks and fire protection zones on, over and/or about property surfaces that proactively inhibit fire ignition and flame spread when exposed to wild fire. The method involves wirelessly connecting a GPS-tracking anti-fire (AF) liquid spraying system to a wireless communication network supporting a network database. The GPS-tracking anti-fire liquid spraying system is used to spray particular GPS-specified ground surfaces with an environmentally-clean anti-fire chemical liquid so to form an environmentally-clean chemical firebreak over the GPS-specified property surfaces, while generating GPS-coordinate and time/date stamped data records pertaining to the application of the environmentally-clean anti-fire chemical liquid spray during the formation of the environmentally-clean chemical firebreak or fire protection zone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2021
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Applicant: M-Fire Holdings LLC
    Inventor: Stephen Conboy
  • Publication number: 20220126135
    Abstract: A wild fire defense system network for proactively defending homes and properties from wild fires. A GPS system provides GPS-location services to each system component in the wild fire defense system network, supported by a wireless communication network. First and second group of wireless GPS-tracked anti-fire (AF) chemical liquid spraying systems are provided. The first group of wireless GPS-tracked chemical liquid spraying systems are assigned to homes and/or buildings in strategic areas of a specified region, for spraying the outside of homes and surrounding ground cover with environmentally-clean anti-fire chemical liquid, to proactively protect the homes and surrounding ground cover from wild fire. The second group of GPS-tracked chemical liquid spraying systems are assigned to operators in the strategic area for spraying GPS-specified ground cover with anti-fire chemical liquid to create strategic clean-chemistry fire breaks that proactively protect GPS-specified property cover from wild fire.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2021
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Applicant: M-Fire Holdings LLC
    Inventor: Stephen Conboy
  • Publication number: 20220126141
    Abstract: A method of managing the proactive spraying of environmentally-clean anti-fire (AF) chemical liquid on GPS-specified property surfaces so as to inhibit fire ignition and flame spread in the presence of wild fire. The method includes deploying a wireless system network supporting a command center, a network database, a plurality of mobile anti-fire chemical liquid spraying systems, and a plurality of mobile computing systems, each being operably connected to a wireless communication network. The GPS address of one or more GPS-specified parcels of property in a specified region, are registered in the network database. at least one of the mobile anti-fire chemical liquid spraying systems are deployed to a GPS-specified location, for spraying the GPS-specified parcels of property with an environmentally-clean anti-fire chemical liquid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2021
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Applicant: M-Fire Holdings LLC
    Inventor: Stephen Conboy
  • Publication number: 20220126139
    Abstract: A wireless system network for managing a GPS-tracked backpack spraying systems commissioned to proactively spray environmentally-safe anti-fire (AF) chemical liquid on buildings, surrounding property, and ground surfaces to protect such property against risk of ignition and flame spread in the presence of wild fire. The wireless system network includes a command center in operable communication with a wireless communication network; and one or more GPS-tracked anti-fire liquid backpack spraying systems, each being in operable communication with the wireless communication network, and having a backpack frame carrying an integrated supply tank and a spray pump deployable on properties for spraying the properties with an environmentally-clean anti-fire chemical liquid using a spray nozzle assembly connected to the spray pump by way of a fluid connection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2021
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Applicant: M-Fire Holdings LLC
    Inventor: Stephen Conboy
  • Publication number: 20220126138
    Abstract: A wireless system network for managing one or more GPS-tracked spraying tanker systems commissioned to proactively spray environmentally-safe anti-fire (AF) chemical liquid on surfaces of buildings, surrounding property, and ground to inhibit fire ignition and flame spread in the presence of wild fire. The wireless system network includes a command center in operably communication with a wireless communication network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2021
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Applicant: M-Fire Holdings LLC
    Inventor: Stephen Conboy
  • Publication number: 20220054876
    Abstract: Environmentally-clean biodegradable water-based biochemical concentrates for producing fire-inhibiting and fire-extinguishing liquids and foams for fighting Class A and/or B fires. The concentrates are formulated using generally safe food-grade chemicals, for foaming agents, surfactants and dispersants, and fire inhibiting extinguishing agents, without the use of phosphates and ammonia compounds. Automated proportioning and mixing devices and systems can be used to mix the biochemical concentrates with proportioned quantities of pressurized water so as to produce fire inhibiting and extinguishing water streams, as well as finished firefighting foam materials, to both inhibit and extinguish fire involving Class A and/or B fuels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2021
    Publication date: February 24, 2022
    Applicant: M-Fire Holdings LLC
    Inventor: Stephen Conboy
  • Publication number: 20220016461
    Abstract: Dry powder chemical compositions for extinguishing fires involving flammable hydrocarbon liquids such as, oils, fuels and non-polar solvents such as ketones and alcohols. The dry powder chemical compositions are made by mixing, blending and milling to suitable powder particle sizes, the following components: a fire extinguishing agent in the form of at least one alkali metal salt of a nonpolymeric saturated carboxylic acid; a powder fluidizing agent to help provide the dry powder composition with excellent fluid flow characteristics; and a surfactant that promotes the formation of anhydrous semi-crystalline metal mineral salt film onto the surface of flammable hydrocarbon liquids, involved in the fire outbreaks to be extinguished and preferably absorbed by the dry powder chemical compositions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2021
    Publication date: January 20, 2022
    Applicant: M-Fire Holdings LLC
    Inventor: Stephen Conboy
  • Publication number: 20220008773
    Abstract: Environmentally-clean aqueous-based fire inhibitor biochemical compositions in liquid phase that can be atomized and sprayed, over a broad ambient working temperature range, as a fine mist over ground surfaces, native ground fuel, living plants, trees and shrubs and when dried forming a durable fire protective coatings having improved surface coverage, and being an effective proactive wildfire inhibitor. These environmentally-clean aqueous-based fire inhibitor biochemical compositions can also be applied to wood products, and wood-framed and mass-timber buildings, decks and anything of a combustible nature, to provide proactive wildfire protection without compromising wood-fiber strength or producing volatile organic components (VOCs).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2021
    Publication date: January 13, 2022
    Applicant: M-Fire Holdings LLC
    Inventor: Stephen Conboy
  • Publication number: 20210154502
    Abstract: A method of and wireless mobile information network for managing the application of a clean fire and smoke inhibiting slurry composition containing clean fire inhibiting chemicals, and cellulose or wood fiber, mixed with water and other additives, on surfaces including ground surfaces in advance of wild fire, to blanket grounds from wildfire ignition, and also application over smoldering ambers and ashes to prevent re-ignition while reducing (i) the use of significant amounts of water, (ii) the production of toxic run off water, and (iii) toxic smoke.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2020
    Publication date: May 27, 2021
    Applicant: M-Fire Holdings LLC
    Inventor: Stephen Conboy
  • Patent number: 10919178
    Abstract: A method of and system for producing Class-A fire-protected oriented strand board (OSB) sheets. Each Class-A fire-protected OSB sheet has: a core medium layer made of wood pump, binder and/or adhesive materials; a pair of OSB layers bonded to the core medium layer; a clean fire inhibiting chemical (CFIC) coating on the surface of each OSB layer, made from CFIC liquid applied to the surface by dipping the OSB sheet into the CFIC liquid in a dipping tank, allowing shallow surface absorption into the OSB layers and ends of the core medium layer at atmospheric pressure; and a moisture, fire and UV protection coating spray coated over the CFIC coating to provide protection against moisture, fire and UV radiation from Sunlight, which is quickly dried by passing through a drying tunnel on the production line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: M-Fire Holdings, LLC
    Inventor: Stephen Conboy
  • Patent number: 10899038
    Abstract: In a lumber factory, an automated laminated veneer lumber (LVL) process supported by a lumber production line employing a cross-cutting and rip-sawing stage, a dip-coating stage, a spray-coating stage, a print-marking stage, and a stacking, packaging and wrapping stage. At the dip-coating stage, cross-cut and rip-sawed LVL product is automatically transported and submerged through a dipping reservoir containing clean fire inhibiting chemical (CFIC) liquid, and then wet-stacked and set aside to dry. Once dried, the dip-coated LVL products are returned to the production line and sprayed coated with a moisture, fire and UV protective coating at the spray-coating stage, and then passed through a drying tunnel for quick drying of the spray-coating to produce Class-A fire-protected LVL products. The Class-A fire-protected LVL products are stacked, packaged and wrapped at the stacking, packaging and wrapping stage into a package of Class-A fire-protected LVL products, ready for shipping.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: M-Fire Holdings, LLC
    Inventor: Stephen Conboy
  • Publication number: 20200406075
    Abstract: A method of protecting life, property, homes and businesses from wild fire by applying environmentally-clean anti-fire (AF) liquid spray using a wireless network supported by GPS-tracking techniques GPS-specified maps and task reports are generated on the wireless network informing when environmentally-clean anti-fire (AF) chemical liquid should be spray applied to said GPS-specified private property using a GPI-tracking AF chemical liquid spraying system prior to arrival of wild fires. The preferred clean anti-fire chemical liquid used does not depend on water to extinguish fire, so that, even after a month or two after spray application on buildings and dry brush around the neighborhood, the clean anti-fire chemical continues to work by stalling the ability of a wild fire to advance and consume property and homes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2020
    Publication date: December 31, 2020
    Applicant: M-Fire Holdings LLC
    Inventor: Stephen Conboy
  • Patent number: 10814150
    Abstract: A wireless system network for managing GPS-tracked stationary spraying systems and GPS-tracking mobile spraying systems deployed on a wireless communication network for supporting the defense of property against wildfires. Each GPS-tracking spraying system includes an electronic circuit or device for (i) automatically tracking the spraying of property with environmentally-clean anti-fire (AF) liquid contained in a storage tank, (ii) automatically monitoring the level of environmentally-clean anti-fire liquid in the storage tank, and (iii) generating and transmitting electronic signals to a remote center so that a service can automatically replenish the storage tank of the GPS-tracking spraying system when the level of environmentally-clean anti-fire liquid falls below a predetermined level in the storage tank. This ensures the systems are ready to spray environmentally-clean anti-fire liquid on property before the incidence of wildfire in a proactive manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: M-FIRE HOLDINGS LLC
    Inventor: Stephen Conboy