Full Name Mark Bowen Name Mark Barron | Role Entrepreneur | |
Born January 15, 1958 (age 66) ( 1958-01-15 ) Occupation Entrepreneur, Inventor, Futurist Residence Bel-Air, Los Angeles, California, United States | ||
'Mark B. Barron (born Mark Bowen) is an American entrepreneur and inventor. He is the CEO of Public Transportation Safety International Corporation (PTS), which invented and produces the S-1 Gard Dangerzone Deflector for transit buses and the Minimize Danger Zone (MDZ) Shield for school buses.
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Early life
Mark Bowen was born in San Diego, California. At the age of five, he and his family relocated to Los Angeles, CA. His parents were divorced by the time he was eleven years old; subsequently, he was sent to reform school.
Professional life
Bowen invented and patented the Chemo Cap, a therapeutic hypothermic device, in 1979. The Chemo Cap was designed to prevent alopecia from chemotherapy treatment by freezing the scalp and decreasing blood flow to areas of hair growth during administration of the drug. While success was initlally limited, more recent "cold caps" have recently achieved more widespread adoption and shown success rates of 80 to 90 percent with certain chemotherapy regimens, in addition to helping prevent cerebral palsy in babies, providing neuroprotection after cardiac arrest, inhibiting stroke paralyis, and as cryotherapy for migraine headaches.
In subsequent years, he launched ventures in long distance telecommunications and legal referral consulting.
Public Transportation Safety Int'l Corp.
In 1994, Bowen invented the S-1 Gard Dangerzone Deflector and founded Public Transportation Safety International. The S-1 Gard is a device installed in front of the dual right rear wheels of transit buses, engineered to deflect a person out of the path of the wheels, preventing injury or death. It is currently installed on bus fleets in major cities such as Los Angeles, Washington D.C., Chicago and Baltimore.
In 2010, PTS launched the MDZ Shield as an alternative to the S-1 Gard for school buses.
Consumeron
Barron's Consumeron was issued a patent for its method of remote acquisition and delivery of goods in August 2012, after its initial filing in 2009. Consumeron is a "personal assistance on demand" and same-day delivery service that offers real-time video inspection, a key claim in the patent. Using Consumeron's system, a consumer on an internet-connected device can select a nearby delivery agent (called a "grabber") to deliver goods and complete tasks, with deliveries targeted within 50 minutes. By utilizing a point-of-view camera streaming real-time video over a cellular network, the user can see what their grabber sees, can communicate directly, and see his or her location via GPS.
Personal life
In 2005, Bowen purchased the home of music producer Quincy Jones in the Bel-Air section of Los Angeles. The home was previously occupied by singer Connie Francis, and later singer Julio Iglesias, who made it famous in 1984 by naming his multi-platinum album 1100 Bel Air Place after the home. In 2010, Bowen legally changed his name to Mark Bowen Barron.