Dennis Wilfred Bellehumeur

US Patent:

6886653, May 3, 2005

Filed:

Oct 22, 2003

Appl. No.:

10/605731

Inventors:

Dennis Bellehumeur - Fort Lauderdale FL, US

International Classification:

B60K028/02

US Classification:

180272

Abstract:

A system and method to prevent a human being from operating a motor vehicle if the human being is intoxicated or under the effects of particular hallucinating drugs that uses a galvanic detector that can measure epidermal (skin) elements of a human being such as alcohol content, sweat and temperature continuously in conjunction with circuitry and logic circuits that connect to the vehicle's ignition system that only allow the vehicle to be operated when certain temperature sensing conditions are met and certain conditions requiring no alcohol are met otherwise the vehicle will be turned off. In an alternate embodiment, a glove could be used for epidermal measurements that is also connected to the sensing circuits.

US Patent:

8256286, Sep 4, 2012

Filed:

Apr 23, 2010

Appl. No.:

12/766662

Inventors:

John Carroll - West Palm Beach FL, US
Catherine Carroll - West Palm Beach FL, US
Dennis Bellehumeur - Fort Lauderdale FL, US

Assignee:

Sober Steering Sensors, LLC - Boca Raton FL

International Classification:

G01N 19/00

US Classification:

7333504

Abstract:

This invention relates to a system and method that can quickly and accurately detect and measure ethyl alcohol in the blood of a motorized vehicle driver transdermally and non-invasively within minutes of ethanol consumption and in the presence of interferents. The system includes an array of sensors embedded into the steering mechanism of a motorized vehicle, a data base of patterns produced through empirical testing of various analytes in various combinations and concentrations, neural net based pattern recognition algorithms to ascertain the driver's transdermal alcohol concentration and a database derived from human testing, correlating the driver's transdermal alcohol concentration with the driver's blood alcohol concentration. The detection system is integrated with a motor vehicle decision module which can prevent the operation of a motorized vehicle by a driver whose BAC exceeds a preset limit.

US Patent:

20130027209, Jan 31, 2013

Filed:

Aug 3, 2012

Appl. No.:

13/566610

Inventors:

John Carroll - West Palm Beach FL, US
Dennis Bellehumeur - Fort Lauderdale FL, US
Catherine Carroll - West Palm Beach FL, US

Assignee:

Sober Steering Sensors LLC - West Palm Beach FL

International Classification:

A61B 5/1477
G08B 23/00
G06F 7/00

US Classification:

340576, 600345, 701 1

Abstract:

This invention relates to a system and method that can quickly and accurately detect and measure ethyl alcohol in the blood of a motorized vehicle driver transdermally and non-invasively within minutes of ethanol consumption and in the presence of interferents. The system includes an array of sensors embedded into the steering mechanism of a motorized vehicle, a data base of patterns produced through empirical testing of various analytes in various combinations and concentrations, neural net based pattern recognition algorithms to ascertain the driver's transdermal alcohol concentration and a database derived from human testing, correlating the driver's transdermal alcohol concentration with the driver's blood alcohol concentration. The detection system is integrated with a motor vehicle decision module which can prevent the operation of a motorized vehicle by a driver whose BAC exceeds a preset limit.