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Thursday, July 10, 2025

Trini’s invention gets US patent

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Bobi-Lee Dixon
1694 days ago
20201118

They say there is some­thing good that al­ways comes out of a bad sit­u­a­tion.

For 39-year-old Ray­mond James, this adage man­i­fest­ed in the sole cre­ation of the Pack­age Pal­ly— a de­liv­ery box James in­vent­ed to pro­tect pack­ages and de­liv­er­ies from theft or dam­age.

His in­ven­tion falls un­der Par­cel Se­cu­ri­ty Ap­pa­ra­tus in the US Patent Sys­tem.

James for­mer­ly from Point Fortin, and re­sid­ing in the US since 18, in­vent­ed the Pack­age Pal­ly af­ter an Ama­zon pack­age he or­dered on­line, was stolen off his front porch in Jack­sonville, Flori­da.

“I looked on­line, did a patent search and saw no one had any­thing like it, so I made a pro­to­type in my garage and ap­plied for a patent. The prob­lem of pack­age theft is a mul­ti­mil­lion-dol­lar prob­lem that needs to be solved. That’s why I in­vent­ed Pack­age Pal­ly,” said the Ch­agua­nas Se­nior Sec­ondary School alum­nus.

In a re­cent speech James gave on his in­ven­tion, he not­ed in the past year alone, 26 mil­lion peo­ple in the US had their med­i­cine, elec­tron­ics and doc­u­ments stolen right off their doorsteps by a porch pi­rate.

The Flori­da State Col­lege grad­u­ate who stud­ied bio­med­ical en­gi­neer­ing and tech­nol­o­gy said Pack­age Pal­ly works by hook­ing it over or un­der one’s door. One can al­so choose to at­tach the in­ven­tion per­ma­nent­ly to one’s door.

But what­ev­er the choice, James guar­an­teed one thing was cer­tain—one’s pack­age would re­main safe.

To demon­strate how the Pack­age Pal­ly is used, James has post­ed sev­er­al videos to the Pack­age Pal­ly Face­book page with short tu­to­ri­als and pic­tures of both its in­te­ri­or and ex­te­ri­or.

One can al­so find videos of ac­tu­al de­liv­er­ies by rep­utable de­liv­ery ser­vices like UPS and FedX, us­ing the Pack­age Pal­ly de­liv­ery box to place de­liv­er­ies.

While the cost of the Pack­age Pal­ly, was still be­ing de­ter­mined as James said he was work­ing on get­ting man­u­fac­tur­ing, the feed­back on his in­ven­tion he said, had been awe­some.

“I am cur­rent­ly in talks with man­u­fac­tur­ers and li­cens­ing com­pa­nies in or­der to bring it to the mar­ket. When it is avail­able for sale with prices I will let every­one know,” said James.

As for any more sig­na­ture in­ven­tions by James com­ing on stream, he said: “Yes, I will be in­vent­ing oth­er things soon, and have oth­er in­ven­tions in mind, as I am con­stant­ly work­ing on solv­ing prob­lems.”


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