I am a small business owner that has acquired three US Patents to date. My first industrial plumbing tool has penetrated almost all 50 states and several foreign countries. The current customer base includes companies and institutions like six General Motors plants, Pratt & Whitney, the Los Alamos Labs, the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator, the Brookhaven Labs, IBM, Applied Materials, the US Army and Air Force, and many Fortune 500 Companies.
My "next-gen" product/tool is due to be released by the end of Q1 2012, which is a pneumatically powered unit that has the potential of resetting the industry standard for the process for the next hundred years.
In addition, several other patents need to be secured in order to expand this product line within the industrial plumbing marketplace.