Dave is the inventor and majority owner of Connect Ring patents. He is also the CEO of Forever Bulb, an advanced LED bulb design company. An inventor, business developer and marketer with broad interests from advanced manufacturing to new high-tech products, his current efforts include a communication/smart support ring, battery-as-propeller for drones/planes, and an inward-aiming LED bulb. Dave is now marketing his patents. He founded and sold advanced technology companies. Under his direction these companies created advanced automation manufacturing systems using robotics and vision systems for Shell, Goodyear, 3M, Ford Motor, Schwan’s and McDonald’s. Dave was finalist for 'Inc.’ Magazine’s' Entrepreneur of the Year. As CEO of ViA Dave and his staff achieved Minnesota’s Fastest Growing Technology Company of the Year Award in 2000 (Deloitte and Touche). McDonald’s awarded him 'Sharing the Dream' for inventing and building food service automation including the French fry dispenser used worldwide. Dave and his team designed, patented, built and sold flexible-wearable PCs including a wrist-based device for DARPA. Also for DARPA he conceived and led his team in building the first near-real-time continuous-speech two-way mobile/wearable language translator system. This was used by the US Army in Bosnia and later in over 60 languages/countries. He also conceived and directed the design/build/test HW and SW for a Navy ONR mobile-worn PC system to direct drones and later the first wrist-mounted communicator with display. Dave’s over 80 issued US and International patents include the 'see-through' touch display keyboard, a top 6% USPTO referenced patent. He has been a speaker at robotics, computing, and speech recognition conferences. Dave received Minnesota Governor’s Innovation Award in 2007 for the second time. Dave is on National Religious Coalition on Creation Care’s Steering Committee working to address anthropomorphic climate change. Partner? Karen!