This overly-excited inventor (actually) has a pretty good idea going.

Only problem is her description is a little unprofessional. Deanna Blette, of Iowa City, IOWA filed a patent in August of 2009 with the USPTO for charging photosensitive film through glass to allow for quick tinting of whole panes. Little pieces of film in the glass would then move depending on the polarity of each side towards or away from the electrical source that magnetizes it. Theoretically, the pieces of film would move in synchrony instantly tinting an entire pane of glass. The inventor, spurred by the creativity of the idea wrote of specific applications of the invention including: burglary prevention, skyscraper shade, car tinting (and untinting), VIP-boxes at baseball games, and so on.

So, the idea isn’t bad. In fact, it’s brilliant. That said, a quick read of the application shows that Deanna didn’t hire a patent lawyer to file the application. Nope. She wrote it herself:

BACKGROUND OF INVENTION

[0003]My mind is wonderful, like my invention. I thought of this, like BAM! It came to me, and I was like, I need to get on this. So Aug. 1, 2005, I was like, I’m sending this out to patent trademark institute of America, Davison, Invent tech, and invent help. They wanted all this money for stuff, which I did not understand. I actually have 12 other inventions, but do not have the resources to put the others up . . . yet. I guess, I’m a bit sensitive to light, and I remember my grandmother, when she lived in Vegas and I would visit during the summers from 10-17 years old, she would have to put the cardboard thing up in front of the windshield, and my butt would always hurt from the seats being hot, and I always thought of it as such a pain and a waste of time. I also remember friends with those ridiculous sound systems that go “BOOM!” 3 blocks away, but how they would get robbed, or some weirdo coming up to person’s car when their child was in it. I also recall, when in school, there’s always that one person that gets that crack of light because the blinds are bent, or messed up, and it’s always right in your eye with no escaping it and class is really hard to concentrate on, especially when teacher is trying to fix it and it’s just screwed. The cut cost in utilities was actually more of an accident, when thinking up my invention, but I was like Cool! So I hope you think it’s cool too. This should absolutely be the new and glorious standard of every home, business, building, school, mall, box seats, car, and airplane, anything with transparent or translucent materials.

Read the full patent application here or here.

United States Patent Application Number: 20090207471