US 12,394,297 B1
Tilt-tree vicinity alarm
Andrew Papathanassiou, Harrisburg, NC (US)
Assigned to AATA, LLC, Harrisburg, NC (US)
Filed by OTW, LLC, Harrisburg, NC (US)
Filed on Dec. 27, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/562,625.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/131,203, filed on Dec. 28, 2020.
Int. Cl. G08B 21/04 (2006.01); F16M 13/02 (2006.01); G08B 21/10 (2006.01)
CPC G08B 21/10 (2013.01) [F16M 13/022 (2013.01)] 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A tilt-tree vicinity alarm system, comprising: (a) an operational unit, including: (i) a housing, (ii) a tilt sensor, disposed in the housing, having an orientation and adapted to serve as or control a switch in an electric circuit, (iii) a first instantaneous vicinity alarm device, disposed together with the tilt sensor in the same housing, that is triggered by operation of the tilt sensor switch and that instantaneously generates an alarm that is perceptible to individuals in the immediate vicinity of the operational unit when the instantaneous vicinity alarm device is triggered, and (iv) a transmitter, connected to the tilt sensor switch, that instantaneously sends a short-range alert signal to a local receiver when triggered by operation of the tilt sensor switch; (b) a mounting system, supporting the operational unit, attached to the tree in prominent visual disposition thereon, the tree being located on a real estate property; and (c) a stationary separate unit, placed elsewhere on the real estate property, that includes the local receiver coupled with a second alarm device, the local receiver and the second alarm device being stationary in their placement elsewhere on the real estate property, wherein the stationary local receiver receives the short-range alert signal and, in response, generates an instantaneous alarm, via the stationary second alarm device, that is perceptible to individuals in the immediate vicinity of the stationary local receiver and stationary second alarm device when the short-range alert signal is received;
wherein the local receiver and second alarm device are stationed inside a residence on the real estate property; and
wherein the transmitter further sends the short-range alert signal to a second local receiver coupled a third alarm device stationed inside a second residence on a second real estate property.