Inventions

Rællar™ -- new 24K gold coating composite, now available to other instrument makers by popular demand. 2025, filed as application 19/328,228 with USPTO.

Spectre -- an innovative Combat Identification System (CIS) system using hyperspectral imaging and long-range computer vision with encrypted, high error-correcting QR codes. Can be embedded in digital camouflage, as well. Ongoing.

Praetor -- RF-attenuating encapsulated ceramic composite armor. Ongoing.

Flash Point -- a proposed system of firefighting using air-dropped remotely operated probes. Inactive.

Infinity Stone -- a proposed advanced information system fusing intelligence with visualization. Inactive. I re-used the title for something else.

Graviton -- a proposed system for mapping underground facilities using MEMS gravimeters. Inactive.

Future Warrior -- helmet mounting system for quad FLIR-type cameras and accessories that retains safety breakaway feature of Wilcox night vision goggle mount, plus battery pack for onboard computer. 2022, patent waived (didn't apply within one year of public disclosure).

The Vision Omega -- proposed 100 gigabit packet capture system utilizing "time division packet steering" (a phrase coined by yours truly), inspired by U.S. government's XKEYSCORE program. 2016, patent waived (presumed existing classified patent).

Instruments

Custom tribute guitars dedicated to Prince, David Bowie, and Edward Van Halen, exactly matching the sound and style of these departed artists, by invitation only.
Vivienne Wilder with Blackstar 001, March 2025. Ian Docherty with the Purple Rain guitarIan Docherty with the Purple Rain guitar in a Dwayne Gretzky show
© Robert Georgeff Photography, used with permission. Ian Docherty playing Purple Rain with July Talk
© Robert Georgeff Photography, used with permission.

🇺🇸 All guitars are Made in USA with a domestic parts content of 85% (body, neck, paint, pickups, frets, strings), unless otherwise indicated. 10% parts content made in Germany (tremolo, knobs, and tuners), 5% other (mounting rings and plates, accessories, and certain minor paint components). "Diamonds and Pearls" guitar may optionally include imported diamonds.

Information Systems

Custom web application programming in the LAMP stack, with 25 years of experience with Linux, Apache, MySQL/PostgreSQL, and PHP, plus recent innovative work in Javascript, HTML5, and CSS.

Innovative X11 programming in C with our in-house software engineer and yours truly.

Mosaic: a fully featured and extremely highly performant noSQL web discussion board system, including a shard-based page accelerator resulting in explosive increases in performance.

Slash: advanced law firm CRM/billing/practice management system, running on General Dynamics PitBull OS. Features the novel Lattice user interface that I wrote from scratch in HTML5/CSS/Javascript. Runs as a blindingly fast in-browser window manager, with a novel technique for focus detection and window raising.

Infinity Stone: a proposed system for the tracking and interception of Hypersonic Glide Vehicles (HGVs) in the midcourse-to-terminal phase using a fusion of Bayesian probability and Artificial Intelligence, featuring an opportunistic automatic queuing algorithm linking local computation with remote supercomputing assets.

Spirit II Valkyrie: upgraded Pegasus configuration with dual CPU's, dual Nvidia RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell GPU's, and a substantial broadcast capability.

Spirit II Pegasus: portable heavy duty computer workstation based on the AMD Threadripper Pro CPU with one or more Nvidia A6000 GPU's and dual 8K displays, running Red Hat Enterprise Linux or Windows 11 Pro. Optional eight-drive RAID 5 with Seagate 2X14 dual-actuator enterprise hard drives (90 TB total capacity). Optional A100 or H100 GPU "backpack" system running Red Hat Enterprise Linux for supercomputing and the Riva A.I. suite, or optional PitBull backpack. Military-grade Pelican rackmount rolling case. Ideal for motion picture production and mobile engineering. $60,000 and up.


Portable broadcast studio.

Rogue Mariner: a proposed maritime private security vessel with next-generation capabilities.