043 Patent pre-application

Jimmy didn't have to wait long, and two days later he received a call from the law school informing him to go.

Jimmy was still on patrol and was short on time, so he had to call Superintendent Carg, take two hours off temporarily, and drive directly to the University of Arkansas at Little Rock.

Jimmy meets Dean Linton again in the law dean's office, but this time with a middle-aged woman in the office.

"Mr. Yang, this is Professor Carion Morgan of our Law School, and Professor Morgan will follow up on your project."

Jimmy shook hands with Professor Morgan and took his seat. This time it was Carion Morgan who came to inquire about the situation.

"Mr. Yang, Dean Linton has already told me about your situation and your project. I need to make it clear again that you are doing the rest of your project by yourself, except for sourcing raw materials, right? ”

"I did the procurement and installation and testing of the whole project by myself, but there was a little work that I paid for someone else to develop, a microcontroller control program, with only very simple functions. I don't know how to do microcontroller programs myself. ”

"So, did you sign a contract with the other party?"

"No, but I can ask him to make up a commission agreement. In addition, I have registered a technology company before, and I can handle it in the name of the company. ”

"Okay, I have a general understanding of the situation, I will select 2 students to work on your project in the next two days, one is responsible for a patent and the other is responsible for a trademark. Please get the prototype and logo ready as soon as possible. ”

Professor Carion Morgan took a look at the situation, and then Jimmy took his leave, took a leave of absence with Kag, and continued his patrol career.

After a period of time, Jimmy frequently traveled back and forth between the law school and the police department, and with the advice of law school professors and students, he repackaged and improved the product, and finally sorted out the documents required for the patent, submitted it to the USPTO, completed the pre-application, and obtained the official acceptance notice of the USPTO patent application.

This will be followed by the USPTO substantive review stage, which will take 12 to 18 months, and the law school will continue to follow up.

For Jimmy, all he can do has been completed, just wait for the follow-up USPTO expert team review results, if it passes, Jimmy will be issued a letter of authorization, and then go through the patent procedures and payment, if not, Jimmy will be notified to defend the patent to meet the needs of the expert review.

From Professor Morgan, I learned that based on the results of their query in the USPTO, there is no relevant patent for reconstructing police and civilian warning lights based on LED light sources.

Jimmy said goodbye to the bigwigs in law school, returned to the police station to patrol with peace of mind, bought more materials during the break, and re-polished the police lights.

Jimmy plans to make a modification of his police car as a case study. Of course, the premise is that you can get Director James. Not daring to move his police car directly for the time being, Jimmy made a small prototype ceiling police light for his private car while perfecting the long police lights, he is still a patrol police officer, and he is not qualified to patrol in a private car.

Jimmy is on the night shift again, it's already April, the weather is warmer, for the location of Arkansas, April is already a very suitable temperature, the highest temperature during the day is more than 20 degrees, and the minimum temperature at night is more than 10 degrees, wearing a thin jacket in this weather solves the problem of keeping warm at night, but for the police, it is still a little unfriendly, because they also have to wear soft body armor.

Jimmy will find a secluded place when he patrols and rests at night, untie the body armor to make himself comfortable, the body armor is very close-fitting, and it is not breathable, for winter, just to do the warmth effect, from the spring, it is a headache, when the patrol is taken off at the end of the body armor, the vest worn in it can be wrung out of sweat.

Jimmy was dissipating the heat while smoking, when he suddenly heard a muffled gunshot. It's been more than half a year in the United States, and now Jimmy doesn't recognize the gunfire as a firecracker, he pulls on his body armor, gets into the car, picks up the radio to report the situation, reports his location, and then pulls out his pistol and walks in the direction where the gunshots sounded.

Judging by the sound of gunshots, the distance will definitely not be very far, because the woods in this area, if they are far away, they will definitely not be able to hear the distant sound because of the silence effect of the woods. What is still uncertain is what kind of gunfire was just now, because it was so stuffy, it felt like it was in a house or a somewhat enclosed space.

Jimmy turns on the flashlight, holds the flashlight in his left hand and the gun in his right hand, points ahead and starts to search left and right.

Jimmy's resting place was on a path on the edge of the grove, and the gunfire just now came from the direction of the woods, and according to the distance of normal gunfire, the place where the shot was fired would not be more than 100 meters away from him, which was quite close.

The woods are not very dense, Jimmy walked into the woods, and after advancing an estimated 20 meters, a small log cabin appeared in the field of vision.

The cabin looked old, some corners of the flashlight were covered with moss, Jimmy walked around the cabin, looked around and found no sign of people, it was too dark, except for the area illuminated by the flashlight, nothing else was visible, Jimmy leaned his back against the wall of the cabin, closed his eyes and began to build the surrounding image.

Jimmy turned his head and sensed all around, there was no one, he looked directly through the walls of the wooden house to check the situation in the room, there was a humanoid black shadow on the ground, there was no one else, there were some straight lines around it, it should be furniture.

Jimmy walked to the door of the cabin, put on his gloves, and pulled the door, which was unlocked and opened.

There was a corpse on the ground, female, middle-aged, the cause of death was a bullet in the head, the bullet part was the back of the head, the corpse's hands and feet were not tied, it should not be an execution-style shooting, it may have been shot in the back by an acquaintance.

Jimmy exited the cabin, closed the door, returned to the police car to report the situation, and then there was a long wait.

When there is a murder, it is not something that one or two people can solve. Superintendent Kag, Constable Noah, part-time coroner Dr. Kevin Smith at the county coroner's office, and the coroner also brought 2 assistants.

Jimmy led them into the woods, found the cabin, and waited outside, it was too dark, it was still a grove outside, and there was no way to check the footprints on the ground at night, so they had to wait for daylight. The coroner and Kag examined inside, and for about half an hour, two assistants carried the body out on a stretcher and onto an ambulance parked outside.

Dr. Kevin took off his gloves and said to Kag, "It's too late today, you can go to the coroner's office tomorrow and get the report." Then he followed the ambulance and left.