IP Library Granted Patent US 10,653,904
Granted Patent B2
US 10,653,904 · App. 15/866,451 · Granted May 19, 2020

Methods of suppressing wild fires raging across regions of land in the direction of prevailing winds by forming anti-fire (AF) chemical fire-breaking systems using environmentally clean anti-fire (AF) liquid spray applied using GPS-tracking techniques

Inventor: Stephen Conboy (Carlsbad, CA)
Assignee: M-FIRE HOLDINGS, LLC
A62C3/00A62C31/005G06Q10/06311H04W4/12
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Patent No.
US 10,653,904
App. No.
15/866,451
Granted
May 19, 2020
Kind
B2
Abstract

A method of suppressing a wild fire raging towards a target region of land in a direction determined by prevailing winds and other environmental and weather factors. Prior to a wild fire reaching a target region of land, a GPS-guided system is used to apply an anti-fire (AF) chemical liquid mist over a GPS-specified fire break region, in advance of the wild fire and containing molecules that cling onto vegetation and form a fire break region, while providing a non-treated region of sufficient size between the front of the wild fire approaching the target region of land and the fire break region. When the wild fire reaches and moves through the GPS-specified fire break region, the molecules clinging onto the vegetation reduce the free-radical chemical reactions raging in the combustion phase of the wild fire. This reduces the destructive energy of the wild fire, thereby suppressing the wild fire and protecting the GPS-specified target region of land.

Claims (28)

1. A method of suppressing a wild fire raging towards a target region of land in a direction determined by prevailing winds and other environmental and weather factors, said method comprising the steps of:

(a) prior to a wild fire reaching a GPS-specified target region of land, applying an anti-fire (AF) chemical liquid mist in advance of the wild fire and containing molecules that cling onto vegetation and form a GPS-specified fire break region while providing a GPS-specified non-treated region of sufficient size between the front of the wild fire approaching said GPS-specified target region of land and said GPS-specified fire break region,

wherein said GPS-specified non-treated region is defined by a first set of GPS coordinates mapped out using global positioning system (GPS) methods,

wherein said GPS-specified fire break region is defined by a second set of GPS coordinates mapped out using said GPS methods, and

wherein said GPS-specified fire break region is formed by a GPS-guided aircraft flying over said GPS-specified fire break region during multiple passes and applying said AF chemical liquid mist over said GPS-specified fire break region; and

(b) when said wild fire reaches and moves through said GPS-specified fire break region, said molecules clinging onto said vegetation reducing the free-radical chemical reactions raging in the combustion phase of said wild fire, and reducing the destructive energy of said wild fire, and thereby suppressing said wild fire and protecting said GPS-specified target region of land.

2. A method of suppressing a wild fire raging towards a GPS-specified specified target region of land in a direction determined by currently blowing winds and other environmental and weather factors, said method comprising the steps of:

(a) prior to a wild fire reaching said GPS-specified target region of land, applying a low-density anti-fire (AF) chemical liquid mist in advance of the wild fire and containing molecules that cling onto vegetation and form a GPS-specified fire stall region, while providing a non-treated region of sufficient size between the front of the wild fire approaching said GPS-specified target region of land and said GPS-specified fire stall region,

wherein said GPS-specified non-treated region is defined by a first set of GPS coordinates mapped out using global positioning system (GPS) methods,

wherein said GPS-specified fire stall region is defined by a second set of GPS coordinates mapped out using said GPS methods, and

wherein said GPS-specified fire stall region is formed by a GPS-guided aircraft flying over said GPS-specified fire stall region during multiple passes and applying said low-density AF chemical liquid mist over said GPS-specified fire stall region;

(b) applying a high-density anti-fire (AF) chemical liquid spray in advance of the wild fire and containing molecules that cling onto vegetation and form a GPS-specified fire break region beyond and contiguous with said GPS-specified fire stall region,

wherein said fire break region is defined by a third set of GPS coordinates mapped out using global positioning system (GPS) methods, and

wherein said GPS-specified fire break region is formed by said GPS-guided aircraft flying over said GPS-specified fire break region during multiple passes and applying said high-density AF chemical liquid spray over said GPS-specified fire break region; and

(c) said fire stall region being formed before said wild fire reaches said GPS-specified fire stall region, and said molecules clinging onto said vegetation operating to reduce the free-radical chemical reactions raging in the combustion phase of said wild fire so as to reduce the destructive energy of said wild fire by the time said wild fire reaches said GPS-specified fire break region, and enabling said fire break region to operate and significantly interfere with the free radical chemical reactions in the combustion phase of said wild fire when said wild fire reaches said GPS-specified fire break region, and thereby suppressing said wild fire and protecting said GPS-specified target region of land.

3. A method of suppressing a wild fire raging towards a target region of land in a direction determined by prevailing winds and other environmental and weather factors, said method comprising the steps of:

(a) prior to a wild fire reaching a target region of land, applying an anti-fire (AF) chemical liquid mist in advance of the wild fire and containing molecules that cling onto vegetation and form a fire break region while providing a non-treated region of sufficient size between the front of the wild fire approaching said target region of land and said fire break region, and

wherein said fire break region is formed by a mobile system applying said AF chemical liquid mist over said fire break region; and

(b) when said wild fire reaches and moves through said fire break region, said molecules clinging onto said vegetation reducing the free-radical chemical reactions raging in the combustion phase of said wild fire, and reducing the destructive energy of said wild fire, and thereby suppressing said wild fire and protecting said target region of land;

wherein said target region of land is a GPS-specified target region of land,

wherein said fire break region is a GPS-specified fire break region, and

wherein said non-treated region is a GPS-specified non-treated region, and

wherein said mobile system comprises a GPS-guided system applying said AF chemical liquid mist over said GPS-specified fire break region, so that when said wild fire reaches and moves through said GPS-specified fire break region, said molecules clinging onto said vegetation reducing the free-radical chemical reactions raging in the combustion phase of said wild fire, and reducing the destructive energy of said wild fire, and thereby suppressing said wild fire and protecting said GPS-specified target region of land.

4. The method of claim 3 , wherein said GPS-guided system comprises a GPS-guided aircraft flying over said GPS-specified fire break region and applying said AF chemical liquid mist.

5. The method of claim 3 , wherein said GPS-guided system comprises a GPS-guided ground-based vehicle moving through said GPS-specified fire break region and applying said AF chemical liquid mist.

6. The method of claim 3 , wherein said GPS-guided system comprises a GPS-guided device moving over said GPS-specified fire break region and applying said AF chemical liquid mist.

7. The method of claim 3 , wherein said GPS-specified non-treated region is defined by a first set of GPS coordinates mapped out using global positioning system (GPS) methods, and wherein said GPS-specified fire break region is defined by a second set of GPS coordinates mapped out using said GPS methods.

8. The method of claim 7 , wherein a wireless system network including a database is deployed for storing said first and second sets of GPS coordinates, for access by said GPS-guided system during said method, and wherein GPS coordinates representative of the movement of said GPS-guided system are automatically recorded in said database during the practice of said method.

Assignments (6)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Dec 10, 2023
From: CONBOY, STEPHEN
To: M-FIRE SUPPRESSION, INC.
Reel/Frame 065822/0143 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Dec 10, 2023
From: M-FIRE HOLDINGS LLC
To: MIGHTY FIRE BREAKER LLC
Reel/Frame 065842/0512 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Sep 18, 2022
From: M-FIRE HOLDINGS LLC
To: MIGHTY FIRE BREAKER LLC
Reel/Frame 061462/0649 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Apr 29, 2022
From: M-FIRE HOLDINGS LLC
To: MIGHTY FIRE BREAKER LLC
Reel/Frame 059825/0479 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jan 31, 2020
From: M-FIRE SUPPRESSION, INC.
To: M-FIRE HOLDINGS LLC
Reel/Frame 051690/0863 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Apr 16, 2018
From: CONBOY, STEPHEN
To: M-FIRE SUPPRESSION, INC.
Reel/Frame 045553/0792 →
Continuity (2)
Continuation In Part 15829914 · Dec 2, 2017
Related Publication 20190168034A1 · Jun 6, 2019
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