About Me

On a rainy winter day during the Christmas Break of my junior year of high school, I observed a strange sight on my front lawn - with rain pouring down, the automatic sprinklers were on wasting water! With my sense of logic disturbed by this occurrence, I started to think about solutions that could prevent this unnecessary waste of water. Soon, I began to explore possible applications of sensors and electronic circuits I had learned in my physics class to help solve this problem. In my free time during the following weeks, I constructed an electronic circuit that shuts off the sprinkler timer with a simple sponge as a rain sensor. After putting together a working prototype, I successfully integrated it to the sprinkler timer. A few days later, I witnessed the sprinklers shutting themselves off as soon as a few drops of rain fell from the sky! Encouraged by this thrilling success, I began to explore how I could share my efforts in saving energy with the rest of the world. As I sold a few of these “Rain Sensors” to neighbors, my entrepreneurial spirit led me to co-found the company AllGreenTech (www.allgreentech.com) to research and develop energy-saving ideas and products for all aspects of everyday life.

During the last four years since co-founding AllGreenTech, I have diligently managed the company’s operations and finances, expanded product offerings, and raised funding to supplement the revenue from the “Rain Sensor” product. AllGreenTech has obtained a pending U.S. patent (No. 61/699,261) titled “Backup and secondary methods to eliminate the waste of energy when the primary energy shutoff mechanism fails to function completely.” Efforts to sell this patent for licensing income are underway. 

While I was working on the patent mentioned above, I came to know many aspects of the patenting process. This includes how to come up with new patentable ideas, how to evaluate whether an idea is patentable, and how to do patent research. In addition, I also worked with a patent attorney who helped me with the paperwork for filing my patent application. This whole process was intriguing and interesting, and I want to learn more details about it. This is the main reason I am taking this class. Hopefully, this class will provide much more insight into the patenting process for me.

Link to my YouTube video: https://youtu.be/9q1IpLwHfOA