US 12,465,043 B1
Portable hand-held device utilized to deter a canine attack
Anthony Radford, Fayetteville, GA (US)
Assigned to Radford Enterprisses. LLC, Alpharetta, GA (US)
Filed by Anthony Radford, Fayetteville, GA (US)
Filed on May 2, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/142,081.
Int. Cl. A01M 29/16 (2011.01); G10K 15/04 (2006.01)
CPC A01M 29/16 (2013.01) [G10K 15/04 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An animal deterrent device, comprising:
a main body that includes a first shell portion removably coupled to a second shell portion, the first shell portion and the second shell portion forming a housing having an internal space;
a transducer disposed of within the internal space of the housing of the main body, the transducer configured to emit a sound wave;
a microprocessor in communication with a microphone and the transducer, and configured to execute one or more processes stored in memory, the microprocessor to perform the operations of:
at a signal processing module, capturing environmental sounds captured by the microphone and processing the environmental sounds as data to enhance and amplify at least one directional sound wave;
at an analytics machine, automatically analyzing the data to optimize the directional sound wave;
at a sound emitting control module communicating with the signal processing module and analytics machine, sending a signal to the transducer to emit the directional sound wave at a frequency capable of maintaining an animal at a distance; and
a power source for powering one or more components of the device.