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"AC-O-LYTE": helper, assistant, to help, assist.
Acolyte's founder, Salvatore "JR" Guerrieri, has always had an interest in
electronics. As a child, he would take apart television sets, radios, and other
household appliances just to see how they worked and inherently was able
to put them back together. A glimmer of the Acolyte concept came one day
when his then girlfriend, Kimberly Anne Piechota took an excessively long
time searching the bottom of her purse for her set of keys. JR had an idea.
He bought her a little pocket flashlight so that the next time she could find
items in her purse easily and quickly. But what seemed like a good idea at
the time had a small problem. The flashlight, which was supposed to help
her search for items in her handbag, was now buried at the bottom of it. At
that moment, JR had a revelation. Why not design a light to automatically go
on when the handbag was opened? JR immediately started to work on his
new concept and Acolyte was created.
In 1996, JR began developing a lighting system to illuminate the interiors of
handbags and knapsacks. The first prototypes were impressive enough for
some friends and family to suggest that he speak to a patent attorney about
a patent. Mr. Piechota, Kimmie's dad suggested one. Impressed by JR's
concept, the attorney conducted a patent search and discovered that the
lighting systems on record were not as "intelligent" and versatile as JR's
lighting systems. Features including automatic magnetic actuation and
wireless design made JR's invention truly novel and unique. On February
19, 1997 a provisional patent application was filed and on February 19, 1998
a non-provisional patent was filed. Since then, four trademarks and
numerous additions to the original patent application have been filed as
well. Friends and family have helped with their funds to finance product
samples, development and filing fees.
Since then JR has developed his initial idea into a complete line of highly
advanced specialty lighting products along with patents, patent pendings,
copyrights and trademarks globally. Already, these products have attracted
advice and interest from various related industry professionals including:
Don Keller, the leading authority of flashlight development and technology,
and former director of marketing and product development at Maglite,
Jonathan B. Schafrann, Esq., known for his extensive patent, trademark, and
copyright experience in the high-tech industry, , Digital Design, Inc.,
developers and manufacturers of high-tech and bio-tech systems and
devices, Chicago Miniature Corporation, developers and manufactures of
lenses and light emitting diodes, Direct Power Plus, an international
marketing, import, and export specialist, Varta Industries, manufacturers of
batteries, Mock International, manufacturers of handbags, Wickstead
Design Group and La Rue International. These individuals and
organizations have donated their time and expertise to help JR attain his
vision of developing innovative quality lighting systems through his
instrument, Acolyte Systems, Inc.
JR started the Acolyte idea to help people. After over a year of searching for a
name for the company, finally, while in the attorney's office, the word "Acolyte"
came up and it was quickly realized that the right name had been found.
ACOLYTE, pronounced "ac-o-lyte" means "helper, assistant, to help, to
assist." On August 20, 1998, Acolyte TM the trademark was filed and,
thereafter, Acolyte Systems, Inc., was formed.
Since then Acolyte Systems Incorporated has actively constructed a powerful
and diverse Intellectual Property Estate consisting of patents, pending
patents, trademarks, and copyrights. Since allowance of its first technology
patent in the year 2000, Acolyte has instituted an aggressive marketing
campaign of its protected intellectual property. This technology can be seen
in Acolyte's own line of consumer and industrial products. Then Acolyte
Systems Inc., now known as the Acolyte Group of Companies.
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