As an Inventor, Paul A. Firestone has received approval for three Patents from the U.S. Patent Office in Washington, D.C. for the inventions described below. To access the U.S. Patent Office and read the full text of any of these Inventions, please go to uspat.gov and enter inventor Paul A. Firestone and the million number ID 5555555555555 that will bring up the complete Patent. Each of Firestone's Patents is concerned with improving Public Safety and/or National Security.
TRAFFIC CONTROL SIGNAL WITH DISPLAYED TIME-ELAPSE
In 2001 Firestone's TRAFFIC CONTROL SIGNAL WITH DISPLAYED "REAL TIME" ELAPSE was granted as US Patent #6,331, 824, which was re-issued on June 16, 2009 as US RE40,8737. Pedestrian safety is the key focus of this patent. The Safety feature of this count-down signal indicates in real time the number of seconds remaining before the traffic signal and traffic flow changes. The pedestrian will know how many seconds remain to cross the street.Read more about this invention of Firestone�s in a Los Angeles Times February 24, 2002 article.
SYSTEM & METHOD FOR COLLECTING VEHICLE
ROAD-USE & PARKING FEES AND FOR
MONITORING VEHICULAR REGULATORY COMPLIANCE
In 2007, Firestone's SYSTEM & METHOD FOR COLLECTING ROAD USE FEES Patent was allowed as US Patent # 09,635,624. The Patent eliminates all toll plazas, all toll booths and all city-parking meter systems. Not only does it replace EZPass and SunPass, it is more effective than LoJack in retrieving stolen vehicles. Statistically there are more than five hundred thousand vehicles stolen each year, disappearing across the Canadian or Mexican borders or "chopped-up" for body parts and shipped overseas. SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING AND COLLECTING FEES FOR A VEHICLE'S USE OF LAND-WAYS, SEA-WAYS AND/OR AIR-WAYS
In 2008, to insure National Security Firestone's SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING AND COLLECTING FEES FOR A VEHICLE'S USE OF LAND-WAYS, SEA-WAYS AND/OR AIR-WAYS was allowed as US Patent Application 11/741,439. All vehicles exiting and entering any and all United States borders of land, sea and/or air must be identifiable and identified for allowability to proceed. ID scanning technology on land and in space identify and give allowance to vehicles to proceed. Fees are applied.
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