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Portrait of T. David Petite in caricature style with a background made out of maps

Thomas David Petite

Communications Inventor and Entrepreneur
Born: 5-30-1956 Atlanta, Georgia

T. David Petite is one of the early inventors of the wireless ad hoc network or Wireless Mesh Technology that enables all mobile phones to work today. He is a member of the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa tribe and founder of the Native American Intellectual Property Enterprise Council, a non-profit organization helping Native American inventors and communities around the country. Petite has over 50 U.S. patents.

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