Patents
Issued 6/10/97 – Facility for Preparing and Deploying Sounding Devices
Inventor(s) – Dean K. Lauritsen, Sigvard J. Stenlund
Description – Modular launch building with wedged eve and overhead hatch that forms part of the wedged eve when fully retracted, and attachable equipment shelter.
Issued 12/31/96 – Radar Acquisition System
Inventor(s) Mitchell A. Randall; Eric Loew
Description – (PIRAQ) Single board processor/converter combination of generally existing technologies never previously combined due to hardware limitations.
Issued 9/10/96 – Portable Intelligent Whole Air Sampling System
Inventor(s) Walter F. Dabberdt; Kenneth D. Norris; Steven R. Semmer; Anthony C. Delany
Description – Automated sampler system for field sampling having multiple syringes mounted on a carousel where each syringe can draw an air sample of a predetermined size at a predetermined time and at a predetermined speed. The laboratory apparatus withdraws the sample by reversing the automated process.
Issued 8/20/96 – Integrated Control system for Preparing and Deploying Sounding Devices and Managing Telemetry Therefrom
Inventor – Charles L. Martin
Description – Software control system for pre-launch preparation and scheduling launch. Software also displays raw data received from sonde and manipulates antenna direction.
Issued 1/23/96 – Low Cost Telemetry Receiving System
Inventor – Terrence F. Hock
Description – Directional antenna with shaped beam and one rotating point. (formerly titled "NEXUS Receiver Antenna").
Issued 11/28/95 – Receiver Antenna for Bistatic Doppler Radar Network
Inventor(s) Mitchell A. Randall; Christopher L. Holloway; Joshua M.A.R. Wurman
Description – See Receiver for Bistatic Doppler Radar Network
Issued 11/21/95 – Receiver for Bistatic Doppler Radar Network
Inventor(s) – Charles L. Frush; Joshua M.A.R. Wurman
Description – See Bistatic Multiple-Doppler Radar Network
Issued 4/25/95 – Bistatic Multiple Doppler Radar Network
Inventor(s) – Charles L. Frush; Joshua M.A.R. Wurman
Description – A multiple doppler radar network can be constructed using only one, traditional, transmitting pencil-beam radar and one or more passive, non-transmitting receiving sites. Radiation scattered from the pencil beam of the transmitting radar as it penetrates weather targets can be detected at the receive-only sites as well as the transmitter. In a bistatic system, the location of the targets in Cartesian space can be calculated from the pointing angle of the transmitting antenna and the time between transmission of a radar pulse from the transmitter and detection at a passive receiver site.
Issued 2/16/93 – Self-Guided Recoverable Airborne Instrument Module
Inventor - Dean K. Lauritsen
Description – A reusable radiosonde utilizing the GPS navigation system for tracking of precise location and self-guided landing; the sonde (or other instrument package) is "unpowered" but has wing surfaces and a mechanism for steering ad guidance for precisely landing the sonde(s) at a predetermined location; any airborne "instrument" package can be carried and guided on descent – not limited to radiosonde implementation.