Highlights
Petite is one of the early inventors of wireless mesh networks, which allow our cell phones and other wireless devices to communicate.
Patents
- US 10,687,194: Systems and methods for providing emergency messages to a mobile device
- US 10,149,129: Systems and methods for providing emergency messages to a mobile device
- US 219/0098480: Systems and methods for providing emergency messages to a mobile device
- US 9,615,226: System and method for transmitting an emergency message over an integrated wireless network
- US 2017/0094491: Systems and methods for providing emergency messages to a mobile device
- US 9,571,582: Systems and methods for monitoring and controlling remote devices
- US 9,571,583: Method of communicating between two devices
- US 2016/0192160: System and method for transmitting an emergency message over an integrated wireless network
- US 9,282,029: System and method for transmitting an emergency message over an integrated wireless network
- US 2015/0140952: Systems and methods for providing emergency messages to a mobile device
Thomas David Petite is a member of the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa tribe and known as an inventor, entrepreneur, and visionary. He was a founder of StatSignal Systems, Inc., the first company, in the late 1990s, to patent an introduce wireless mesh technology. He is also a founding partner of DIPCO, which has further developed technologies related to the Wireless Mesh.
He is the founder of the native American Intellectual Property Enterprise Council, which helps indigenous inventors nationally. Petite has over 100 patents pending and issued.
