Patents

Date Awarded Title Inventor
Pending Operational Bright-band Snow Level Detection Using Doppler Radar Vertical Spectral Moments White
Acoustic Remote Sensor of Ocean Current and Wave Spectra Frisch & Clifford
Hybrid Autodyne Lidar Churnside,Gordov & Orlovskii
Scattering Swimming Pool Alarm Clifford &Bedard
A Method for Detecting Fish with Lasers Palmer & Churnside
Economy Crosswind System Churnside & Wilson
Ocean Sounding Devices Using for Its Operation Energy of Sea Waves Voronovich & Churnside
Laser Detection of Biomass Using Neural Network Processing Palmer
A Method for Computing the Cross- Wind Speed of Direction for an Optical Cross-Wind Sensor Churnside, Wilson, & Bravo
Hexagonal-Annullus Phased-Array Antenna for Radar Wind Profiling on Moving Platforms Law
2002 Icing Hazard Avoidance System Using Dual Polarization Airborne Radar
U.S. Patent 6,377,202 		Kropfli, Bartram, Martner, Matrosov & Reinking
Passive Polarimetric Microwave Radiometer for Detecting Aircraft Icing Conditions
U.S. Patent 6,377,207 		Frederick S. Solheim and Albin J. Gasiewski
2000 Wavelet Based Sodars
U.S. Patent 6,097,669		 Jordan, Abbott, & Templeman
Method for an Autonomous Cloud Radar
U.S. Patent 6,098,018 		Welsh, Merritt, Francavilla, Glaess, King, & Zhang
1999 Removing Buoy Motion from Wind Profile Moment Estimates
U.S. Patent 5,872,535		 Jordan & Lataitis
Antenna System with Edge Treatment Means for Diminish Antenna Transmitting and Receiving Diffraction, Sidelobes, and Clutter
U.S. Patent 5,963,176		 Solheim, Jordan & Wilson
1997 Wind Profiling Radar
U.S. Patent 5,592,171		 Jordan
Process for generating wind profiler data free of fixed ground clutter contamination
U.S. Patent 5,686,919		 Jordan & Chadwick
Statstical Quality Control of Profiler Data
U.S. Patent 5,689,444		 Jordan
1996 Statistical Averaging Method for Wind Profiler Doppler Spectra
U.S. Patent 5,568,151		 Merritt
1995 A Method of Reducing Acoustic and Electromagnetic Energy Diffracted by Barriers to Low Launch Angles
U.S. Patent 5,393,940		 Bedard, Churnside & Nishiyama
Remote Sensing of Ocean Surface Currents
U.S. Patent 5,381,222		 Palmer
1993 Lidar-Acoustic Sounding of the Atmosphere
U.S. Patent 5,221,927		 Palmer
1992 A Highly Directional Sound Projector
U.S. Patent 5,137,110		 Bedard & Nishiyama
Single-Ended, Dual Spatial Filter for the Passive Measurement of Winds and Turbulence Aloft
U.S. Patent 5,159,407		 Churnside, Clifford & Hanson
Switchable Local Oscillator for Shared Mixer Radiometers
U.S. Patent 5,134,415		 Jordan
Fluxes Scintillometer
U.S. Patent 5,150,171		 Hill & Ochs
1991 Single Station Radar Ocean Surface Current Mapper
U.S. Patent 4,996,533		 May, Strauch & Weber
Icing Hazard Detector for Aircraft
U.S. Patent 5,028,929		 Sand & Kropfli
Up-shifted Free Electron Laser Amplifier
U.S. Patent 5,023,563		 Harvey & Palmer
1989 Quad Disk Static Pressure Probe
U.S. Patent 4,838,087		 Nishiyama & Bedard
Covered Inverted Offset Cassegrainian System
U.S. Patent 4,866,457		 Hogg
1988 Acoustic Scintillation Liquid Flow Measurement
U.S. Patent 4,760,743		 Clifford & Farmer
1987 Phased Antenna Array for Wind Profiling Applications
U.S. Patent 4,647,933		 Hogg
1986 Twin-Etalon Scanning Spectrometer
U.S. Patent 4,525,067		 Hernandez
Method and Apparatus for Four-Beam Radar
U.S. Patent 4,633,256		 Chadwick
Temperature Insensitive Pressure Jump Detector
U.S. Patent 4,578,994		 Bedard & Ramzy
1984 Echometry Device and Method
U.S. Patent 4,481,517		 Brown
Three-Element Antenna Formed of Orthogonal Loops Mounted on a Monopole
U.S. Patent 4,433,336		 Carr
Device for Measurement of the Spectral Width of nearly Monochromatic Sources of Radiant Energy
U.S. Patent 4,449,823		 Schwiesow
1982 Triple-Beam Offset Paraboloidal Antenna
U.S. Patent 4,338,608		 Strauch & Hogg
1979 HF Coastal Current Mapping Radar System
U.S. Patent 4,172,255		 Barrick & Evans
Differential Doppler Velocity Sensor
U.S. Patent 4,168,906		 Schwiesow
Method and Apparatus for Measuring Gas Flow Speed
U.S. Patent 4,170,899		 Fujita & Bedard