For many years, Lloyd has initiated new directions.
In 2019 a U.S. patent was issued to Dr. Paul Zeltzer and LLoyd for a safer lumbar puncture needle. [link to patent].
Recognizing the harm done in drawing blood from infants, with an invention by a friend for safer blood collection, Lloyd created a marketing campaign that brought together investors who were instrumental in obtaining patents for the safety needles. [picture of patent]. His expose on the terror of the technologies won first place in 2012 by the Association of Safety Engineers. [link to article] From this work safety in phlebotomy has greatly improved in the U.S..
Lloyd has founded educational programs in organic sustainable agriculture (2006), was the first president of the Farmers Union (2010) that spread since throughout Hawaii.
He was one of the first Americans to pioneer people-to-people diplomacy programs in response to Mikhail Gorbachev’s call for an end to the Cold War (1990).
His concept of the world’s first personal data assistant (PDA), The Calling Card (1987), worked as a linchpin launching the handheld consumer electronic industry.
Lanikai Farms is a state-of-the-art facility open to schools for field trips (grades 5-12.) Students are taught the basics of fish farming for sustainable agriculture in a small or large space. The educational facility was funded in part by the U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Sea Grant’s Pacific Tropical Ornamental Fish Program (PTOFP), and the Economic Development Alliance of Hawaii.