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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7292178 | Aircraft hazard detection and alerting in terminal areas A weather radar system or method can be utilized to determine potential weather hazard for an aircraft in a terminal area. The weather radar system can utilize processing electronics coupled to an antenna. The processing electronics can determine presence of the pot... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7259694 | Wireless communication system and method to provide geo-spatial related event data A system and method for communication of information that has particular significance to a specific location only to those individuals that are at or near that geo-spatial location. In particular, providing safety factor data and alerts is a preferred use of the inv... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7237110 | Authentication system, authentication apparatus, authentication target apparatus, authentication method, method of being authenticated, program and information recording medium An observation unit of an authentication apparatus and an observation unit of an authentication target apparatus observe a radio wave from a common radio star at a common observation time. A sending unit sends information message including information on the observe... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7227858 | Method of synchronization without broadcasting synchronization signal A method of synchronizing stations without broadcasting a synchronization signal. Presetting an environmental variable into each station prior to deploying the stations. Presetting an interval of time into each station prior to deployment. Deploying the stations. Wa... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7213169 | Method and apparatus for performing imprecise bus tracing in a data processing system having a distributed memory An apparatus for performing imprecise bus tracing in a distributed memory symmetric multiprocessor system is disclosed. The apparatus includes a bus trace macro (BTM) module that can control the snoop traffic seen by one or more of the memory controllers in the data... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7211994 | Lightning and electro-magnetic pulse location and detection for the discovery of land line location The identification of the path and termination points of copper landlines is performed through the use of natural events without the aid of network provisioning information. At least one sferics detector detects at least one sferics event. A listening device, which ... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7200418 | Detection of lightning The invention relates to a mobile radio-frequency enabled device. In order to enable a lightning detection by means of such a device, it comprises an electromagnetic interferences detection component detecting electromagnetic interferences in at least one radio-freq... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7171308 | Weather station A weather station for providing weather information to a user, especially weather information related to lightning and severe thunderstorm activity. In accordance with the present invention, the weather station includes one or more antennas for receiving GPS transmi... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7088241 | Business process for disseminating pilot weather data by voice A computer-implemented method and system is provided for delivering immediate (up to the minute) aviation weather information. A pilot makes a call to a single toll free number and specifies the location he wants to receive weather from. The system and method disamb... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7050906 | System for monitoring and locating people and objects A method, computer program product and system for monitoring and locating an object using secure communications without relying on GPS. A monitoring device may activate a monitored unit (unit monitored by monitoring device) by transmitting a seed of an algorithm and... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7027898 | Weather information network including graphical display An apparatus for providing weather information onboard an aircraft includes a processor unit and a graphical user interface. The processor unit processes weather information after it is received onboard the aircraft from a ground-based source, and the graphical user... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7016785 | Lightning detection A mobile radio-frequency enabled device that provides a reliable and inexpensive lightning alerting of a user. The device comprises an electromagnetic interferences detection component detecting electromagnetic interferences in radio-frequency signals received by th... | 03/21/2006 |
| 7009550 | Method and apparatus for monitoring and measuring oil spills The present invention relates to an oil spill identification system and oil spill identification sensors to be used in connection with this system. The system is used primarily on fixed offshore structures, but may also be used on fixed onshore constructions. The se... | 03/07/2006 |
| 7010437 | Electric utility storm outage management Electric utility storm outage management is performed by determining an interconnection model of an electric utility power circuit, the power circuit comprising power circuit components, determining information indicative of weather susceptibility of the power circu... | 03/07/2006 |
| 6930617 | Methods and apparatus for airspace navigation Methods and apparatus are provided for airspace navigation. Airspace navigation information for an aircraft is displayed in a first mode, such as, in a horizontal mode. One or more navigation events may then be detected, such as, proximity to a terrain feature, weat... | 08/16/2005 |
| 6922059 | Electric field sensor The invention is a detection system and in one embodiment uses inexpensive, miniaturized sensors for detecting electric field (E-field) disturbances. Such sensors are easily and covertly deployable and have low power consumption. The devices may incorporate visual o... | 07/26/2005 |
| 6906625 | System and method for information assimilation and functionality control based on positioning information obtained by impulse radio techniques A system and method for information assimilation and functionality control based on positioning information obtained by impulse radio techniques, which utilizes the position information and communication abilities inherent in impulse radio technology to correlate po... | 06/14/2005 |
| 6850184 | Forecasted radar mosaics A system and method to build a radar reflectivity forecast mosaic from a collection of radar sites. The radar data from multiple radar sites is processed to create movement information for all of the precipitation areas. The movement information and precipitation ar... | 02/01/2005 |
| 6822574 | Ionosonde An ionosonde includes a signal-transmitting section for transmitting to an ionosphere pulsed radio waves whose frequency is scanned; a signal-receiving section that includes a loop antenna system for measuring intensity of a magnetic field Hz of pulsed radio waves r... | 11/23/2004 |
| 6791311 | Lightning detection and data acquisition system A lightning detection and data acquisition system. A plurality of remote programmable sensor is utilized to detect cloud to ground and IC lightning strikes. Analog representations of the lightning strikes are converted to digital signals. The digital signals are cla... | 09/14/2004 |
| 6788043 | Lightning detection and data acquisition system A lightning detection and data acquisition system. A plurality of remote programmable sensor is utilized to detect cloud to ground and IC lightning strikes. Analog representations of the lightning strikes are converted to digital signals. The digital signals are cla... | 09/07/2004 |
| 6768946 | Lighting strike position locating method, apparatus, system and program The present invention provides a method and apparatus for locating the position of a lightning strike free of topography-dependent error by calculating a ground point having a difference in propagation distance at receiving stations (R1, R2 and R3 | 07/27/2004 |
| 6670908 | Automated system and method for processing meteorological data A computer based method of processing meteorological data to automatically characterize significant meteorological events is disclosed. Meteorological data is received and processed to generate a plurality of distinct threat products for a given geographi... | 12/30/2003 |
| 6560538 | Displaying lightning strikes Lightning strikes are displayed as uniformly-structured (e.g., gaussian) kernels that decay in size and intensity over time. The lightning strikes may be displayed as they occur, or stored for later display. Overlapping areas of the kernels are displayed ... | 05/06/2003 |
| 6297766 | Portable weather indicating device and method A portable weather indicating device includes a housing with a display that can be carried by a user during hiking, biking, or other activities. A communication link and microprocessor are located in the housing for receiving and processing weather data. ... | 10/02/2001 |
| 6246367 | Lightning locating system A lightning detection system for detecting and locating an initial discharge of an initial leader stroke of a lightning flash. An initial lightning discharge produces a pulse that can be used to accurately detect lightning, and more particularly, the loca... | 06/12/2001 |
| 6201494 | Automatic storm finding weather radar An automatic storm finding weather radar is disclosed that uses a storm finding algorithm to automatically control the weather radar to eliminate manual control. The storm finding algorithm uses the 0° C. isotherm altitude where precipitation is most lik... | 03/13/2001 |
| 6064340 | Electrostatic discharge locating apparatus and method An electrostatic discharge locating system may include a plurality of receivers and a central unit. Each receiver may include an antenna. The receivers may receive radio wave signals emanating from an electrostatic discharge event and transmit the signals... | 05/16/2000 |
| 5907568 | Integrated precision approach radar display An improved precision approach radar (PAR) system using an integrated digital display for displaying the relative position of one or more targets, e.g., aircraft, to a preferred glide path and azimuth course line. A preferred PAR system uses a radar head ... | 05/25/1999 |
| 5771020 | Lightning locating system A lightning detection system for detecting and locating an initial discharge of an initial leader stroke of a lightning flash. An initial lightning discharge produces a pulse that can be used to accurately detect lightning, and more particularly, the loca... | 06/23/1998 |
| 5757322 | Cellular weather information system for aircraft Electromagnetic radiation from lightning is detected at a ground station which is part of a cellular network of stations; a computer determines a position of a thunderstorm associated with the lightning, then compiles and stores the storm location data. A... | 05/26/1998 |
| 5724040 | Aircraft wake vortex hazard warning apparatus An apparatus for monitoring the position of objects in a space including a target supervisor, a location supervisor, and a hazard monitoring supervisor. The apparatus can detect and respond to a potential wake-vortex hazard condition. The tracking supervi... | 03/03/1998 |
| 5621410 | Remote prediction of lightning hazards The disclosure is directed to a method and apparatus for remotely sensing electrical activity and potential for lightning occurrence. The disclosure is particularly directed to the use of such an apparatus and method to detect the electrical alignment of ... | 04/15/1997 |
| 5602543 | Detection system for use in an aircraft A detection system for use in an aircraft which is able to monitor atmospheric conditions ahead of the aircraft, generate an alarm signal if adverse atmospheric conditions exist ahead of the aircraft and generate information which indicates the position o... | 02/11/1997 |
| 5541501 | Lightning and storm warning method and apparatus A lightning ranging device which utilizes two frequencies in the field generated by a lightning discharge to determine range. The relative amplitudes of the outputs from two tuned receiver channels varies with distance from the lightning stroke. A two-dim... | 07/30/1996 |
| 5539409 | Apparatus and method for windshear data processing The present invention improves upon conventional windshear data processing techniques in three mutually exclusive aspects. First, the present invention provides an improved method and system for detecting microburst downdraft candidates. The improvement l... | 07/23/1996 |
| 5534868 | Method and system for the detection and measurement of air phenomena and transmitter and receiver for use in the system A system and method for the detection and measurement of atmospheric air movement irregularities such as wind velocity vector, clear air turbulence, aircraft induced vorteces and turbulence, by means of electromagnetic waves. An air volume (10) under inve... | 07/09/1996 |
| 5495129 | Electronic device for multiplexing several loads excited by alternating current An electronic device for multiplexing several loads to the terminals of a source of alternating electrical energy. The source(4) of alternating electrical energy is coupled by electromagnetic flux to the loads by using primary excitation windings 71, 81 a... | 02/27/1996 |
| 5488375 | Airborne weather radar system with icing detection capabiliy A weather radar system with icing detection capability is disclosed. Increased radar system sensitivity is combined with aircraft outside air temperature to determine super-cooled liquid water content which leads to icing. The radar system can operate in ... | 01/30/1996 |
| 5471211 | Receiver antenna for bistatic doppler radar network 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 ... | 11/28/1995 |
