Inventor: Daly, Lisa Margaret
Filed: 2014-01-31 Published: 2015-01-15
Problem: Public spaces and public transportation can be too crowded and encroach on a person's personal space.
Solution: A barrier which defines a space for the user and restricts sensory feedback (e.g., visual, touch, and/or auditory feedback) from others.
The application includes an embodiment for the use of "antibacterial, antimicrobial, antifungal" materials separating the user from others. A much needed feature as the application points out regarding public transportation,
"One seated passenger may eat, engage in personal grooming, cough, sneeze, physically rub against, stare, and otherwise provide unwanted stimuli to the person beside whom they are seated. There have even been cases of passengers urinating on bench seats with the urine running onto the seat and person seated next to them and of passengers vomiting and bleeding on passengers seated beside them."