The proximity of that shopping plaza to the adjacent Walmart parking lot where the pressure cooker was discovered days earlier further increased suspicion of the duffle bag, Shaw said. Someone pulled into the parking lot of the Stillwater Avenue plaza containing AT&T, Mattress Firm and TD Bank and placed a duffel bag down before leaving, Shaw said. “But when you put them all together, it makes it suspicious.” “Taking any of those factors alone probably wouldn’t be suspicious,” Shaw said. Somebody had driven into the Walmart parking lot and placed the pressure cooker, an Instant Pot, on the ground before leaving, he said. But the circumstances under which the device ended up in a Walmart parking spot made officers believe it was important to call in the bomb squad, Shaw said. My kids are like, Dad, you’re an inventor! And I’m like, Yeah, yeah I am! Never one of my aspirations, but, hey, we’ll put it on the résumé.Authorities are already more suspicious of pressure cookers than other items due to their use in past attacks, including the Boston Marathon bombing in 2013.
Inventor of bombsquad app full#
I decided to forgo getting the full patent and spending all that money. So I looked at what percentage I’m getting from each one of these, and I’m thinking, It’s going to take a long time for me to make up the price of a patent. When I was shopping the socket around, one guy I talked to said, Listen, just so you’re aware, if a company decides they want to make that-a larger company-you don’t have the resources, patent or not, to fight them. It was something like $5,000 to go for the full-on patent. It was like, Now what do I do? Somebody said yes! I went back to Bala, and he cooked up some numbers. And then one day, a company called Rack-A-Tiers said yes. After that, you have to decide what you’re going to do. You can get the provisional faster, and you still have the protections of a patent. The provisional patent protected me when I shopped the thing out to manufacturers. He walked me through getting a provisional patent. Everyone at work was like, Wow, check that out! You should make these! The machinist says, Here’s the name of this patent attorney we use: Bala Sundararajan. When you have the socket on a ratchet, you now have a lever. There’s a short slot in the center for eyebolts, and then perpendicular to that there’s a longer slot that fits over a T-handle. And I had this idea that, you know, I could make this thing.Ī friend of mine, a machinist, I was talking to him and he was like, I’ll make that for you. So I searched the old interweb to no avail. So now we’re trying to turn these handles. And we wear arc flash suits, which kind of resemble a big bulky thing you’d see the bomb squad wear. They’d often be in very hard-to-reach areas. Ground clamps attach to cables with an eyebolt or a T-handle. On these systems, when you’ve turned them off, the cables and equipment still retain energy. They have a lot of substations with a medium voltage, which goes anywhere from 2,000 volts up to 35,000 volts. I ended up on a job at Merck pharmaceuticals.
I went to a union apprenticeship, and I’m still union. Patent: Ground Clamp Socket: A socket wrench fixture to easily tighten any electrical ground clamp, saving time-and the risk of accidental exposure to 35,000 volts.
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