US Patent Issued to Dave Fellon on Feb. 17 for "Systems and methods for detering theft of internal components of streetlights" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,553,591, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Dave Fellon (St. Paul, Minn.).

"Systems and methods for detering theft of internal components of streetlights" was invented by Dave Fellon (St. Paul, Minn.) and Jace Fellon (St. Paul, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A streetlight apparatus and method involves use of an anti-theft material for deterring theft of electrical wiring from a streetlight. The anti-theft material includes a stack of rings encircling the electrical wiring in the chamber of the base of the streetlight, where each ring of the stack of rings may include a plurality of ring segments that are each individually insertabl...