	US 12,080,139 B2
	Monitoring device and methods of use
Leveland Brown, West Warwick, RI (US); Robert Iovino, Voluntown, CT (US); Donna Kane, North Providence, RI (US); Carl J Rennard, Lincoln, RI (US); and Laura Schneider, Loveland, CO (US)
Assigned to LEEB Innovations, LLC, West Warwick, RI (US)
Filed by LEEB Innovaions, LLC, West Warwick, RI (US)
Filed on Mar. 14, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/121,236.
Application 18/121,236 is a continuation of application No. 17/441,845, granted, now 11,631,313, previously published as PCT/US2020/023099, filed on Mar. 17, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/823,729, filed on Mar. 26, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2023/0215260 A1, Jul. 6, 2023
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. G08B 21/02 (2006.01); A01K 11/00 (2006.01)

CPC G08B 21/0269 (2013.01) [A01K 11/008 (2013.01); G08B 21/0266 (2013.01); G08B 21/0286 (2013.01)]

9 Claims

1. An apparatus for monitoring a living target, the apparatus comprising:

(a) a lock for fixing the apparatus to the living target;

(b) a tamper-evidencing mechanism configured to at least one of destruct or emit a signal in response to a broken circuit in the apparatus;

(d) a mechanism for determining the apparatus is within at least one of a first threshold distance from a second apparatus or a first threshold distance from a pre-set GPS location;

(e) a mechanism for warning the living target responsive to the determining the apparatus is within the at least one of the first threshold distance from the second apparatus or the first threshold distance from the pre-set GPS location;

(f) a mechanism for determining the apparatus is in a banned location, wherein the banned location comprises at least one of a second threshold distance from the second apparatus or a second threshold distance from the pre-set GPS location, wherein the second threshold distance from the second apparatus is less than the first threshold distance from the second apparatus, and wherein the second threshold distance from the pre-set GPS location is less than the first threshold distance from the pre-set GPS location;

(g) a mechanism for emitting a debilitating sound responsive to the determining the apparatus is in the banned location;

(h) a mechanism for visually marking the living target responsive to the determining the apparatus is in the banned location, wherein the mechanism for visually marking the living target is a light;

(i) a communication mechanism for communicating a GPS location of the living target to at least the second apparatus and a third apparatus responsive to the determining the apparatus is in the banned location.