About
T. David Petite is an American inventor and is best known for being one of the five early key inventors of Wireless ad hoc network or Wireless Mesh, Technology. He is Native American and a member of the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa tribe. He is also a founder of the Native American Intellectual Property Enterprise Council, a non-profit organization helping Native American inventors and communities.
Petite has over 50 US patents pending, dating back to 1995 on ad hoc networks. A listing of his inventions can found at Patent Genius or by a search at The US Patent Office. Petite is considered to be a visionary scientist/engineer, with business knowledge skills. His early inventions seem to demonstrate a foresight to see the technology curve with business values.
Today Mr. Petite operates several companies that license his existing patents and technologies while he continues to develop exciting new wireless and wired products.
Specialties: Inventor patents over 70 patents pending and issued
Work history
Chairman
Native American Intellectual Property Enterprise Council
2010 – Present (5 years)Alexandria Virginia
Founder of Native American Intellectual Property Enterprise Council with a vision to provide Intellectual Property guidance assistances to all tribal nations with the intent to develop fundamental support for new business opportunities, and educational awareness protecting cultural brand identification values envoking monetary controls.
Chairman
IntusIQ
January 2008 – Present (7 years 7 months)
Technology consulting providing a solid pathway for results on creating solutions for wireless network applications
Founder & Chairman CEO
NATIVE AMERICAN INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ENTERPRISE COUNCIL
January 2010 – October 2012 (2 years 10 months)
NAIA - a non-profit 501(c)3 organization.
We support the growth of innovation and invention among Native American people.
Native American Inventors Association supports Native American Tribes protecting and monetizing Intellectual Property, buy cultivating and mining Intellectual Capital within the tribal community.
Chairman
SIPCO "smart ip company"
January 2003 – February 2012 (9 years 2 months)
Owner founder independent inventor of IP for wireless communication systems, and intellectual property licensing smart cloud technology.
Founder President
StatSignal Systems, Inc.
May 1993 – November 2003 (10 years 7 months)
One of the initial pioneers for wireless mesh. Innovated machine to machine wireless extended devices to the Internet. Considered to be a prolific leader in communication technology network designs. Has implemented new service provisioning platforms creating new market industries.
Education and qualifications
University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
Certificate, Execuitve School of Management
2008 – 2008
Texas Christian University
Certificate, Infrastructure logistics, Business
1984 – 1986
