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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8073622 | Long-range lightning detection and characterization system and method A long-range lightning detection and characterization system and method. Electromagnetic radiation produced by a lightning strike is sensed at a sensing location and a measured signal representative of the strike is produced that defines an amplitude versus time. A ... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8010289 | Method and apparatus for detecting and processing lightning A lightning detector designed for aircraft carried applications provides for improved lightning discrimination and display. The instrument employs a relatively wide band receiver so as to retain the received waveform or digital replicas thereof. This allows more pre... | 08/30/2011 |
| 8005617 | System and method for detecting lightning strikes likely to affect a condition of a structure A lightning detection system and method for detecting a lightning strike are provided. The system includes a lightning detector in a structure susceptible to a lightning strike. The lightning detector includes a data logger configured to log data indicative of a tim... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7970542 | Method of detecting, locating, and classifying lightning There is discloses a new method for identifying an electromagnetic signal having a known waveform. The method includes using a lightning matched filter receiver having a bank of filters matched to nominal but arbitrary lightning waveforms for detecting lightning. Th... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7957902 | Method and system for determining cloud-to-ground lightning information A real-time, multi-sensor local-area lightning detection network system. The system uses waveform indicative of electrostatic field changes with respect to time is generated at each of N locations due to a cloud-to-ground lightning strike occurring in the vicinity o... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7925442 | Pseudo logs to improve stratigraphic correlation between sedimentary basins In order to improve the tie between depositionally equivalent beds relative to two or more basins detected within a multi dimensional seismic volume of interest, pseudo logs based on the average of attributes derived from seismic impedance where the compaction trend... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7869953 | System and method for presenting lightning strike information A system and method for presenting lightning strike information in a manner so as to be easily understood and appreciated by viewers of televised weather report presentations. Lightning strike information is displayed with a marker and textual indication of the ligh... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7809507 | Lightning detector using an X-ray detector and an E- or B-field detector A lightning detection system (100) includes at least one lightning detector (101-103). The said lightning detector (101-103) includes at least one x-ray detector (110) for providing x-ray data responsive to x-rays received, ... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7788036 | Weather severity and characterization system A method of presenting weather phenomenon information including receiving weather data. At least one weather phenomenon represented by the weather data is identified. A plurality of current parameters related to the current state of the at least one weather phenomen... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7672783 | System and method for recording, transmitting and analyzing data and information accrued from electromagnetic radiation A system and a method for recording, transmitting and analyzing data and information accrued from, low-frequency, electromagnetic radiation, where the electromagnetic radiation originates from at least one impulse source of natural and/or artificial origin, from at ... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7460956 | Systems and methods for time corrected lightning detection A lightning detection system provides an estimated location of a lightning stroke. The system includes sensors, and an analyzer. Each sensor provides messages having sensor identification, an amplitude responsive to the lightning stroke, and a time of detecting the ... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7383131 | Airborne volcanic ash cloud and eruption detection system and method Systems and methods for detecting volcanic eruption and predicting plume hazards are described. The system comprises a processor and a database having the location of a plurality of volcanoes communicating with the processor. The system also comprises a lightning de... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7369082 | Method and apparatus implementing a scan strategy for automatic high power tube recovery A method of reducing power to an electron emitting cathode comprises the steps of sensing a weather condition; calculating a condition number based upon the weather condition; comparing the condition number to a threshold; and reducing the power to the electron emit... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7313810 | Multimedia information transmission and distribution system A communication system having programmable, addressable receivers that receive, store, process, and send digital and conventional video, audio and control signals for use in, among other things, a cable video network (9). Conventional audio and composite vide... | 12/25/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7269537 | Infrasound sensor with disturbance filtering The invention pertains to the sensing and measurement of infrasound (pressure variations with frequency content under 10 Hertz). The invention measures the infrasound pressure variations and then attenuates undesired contributions due to, but not limited to, changes... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7266455 | Apparatus for low cost lightning detection A lightning detector system monitors the lightning strikes requires a real-time detection and processing system. A real-time processing system requires the use of a high-speed processor with floating-point math capability and multiple analog to digital channels. The... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7254484 | Detection of lightning A lightning detector for lightning detection and a lightning detection method, wherein the mobile lightning detector is provided with an antenna, an amplifier front-end, an A/D converter and a digital signal processor, and wherein the lightning detector is a mobile ... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7200491 | System for producing high-resolution, real-time synthetic meteorological conditions for a specified location Methods and articles of manufacture for estimating or deriving weather observations/conditions for any given location using observed weather conditions from neighboring locations, radar data, lightning data, satellite imagery, etc. An initial estimate of weather con... | 04/03/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7181346 | System and method for assessing the people and property impact of weather A system and method for determining information about the potential impact of a significant weather event on a category of interest, such as a population base, property, traffic flow and infrastructure. Information about the forecasted path of a weather event is use... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7181345 | Location-based weather nowcast system and method A method for providing a mobile user with updated weather nowcasts comprises: receiving a request from a user, the request being associated with a location, and for a period such as about an hour sending the user regular meteorological information regarding the loca... | 02/20/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7139835 | Communication network based on topographic network devices The network comprises topographic network devices and communication links interconnecting the topographic network devices. The topographic network devices each have a physical location represented by a topographic coordinate set, and a network address that includes ... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7082382 | System for producing high-resolution, real-time synthetic meteorological conditions for a specified location Methods and articles of manufacture for estimating or deriving weather observations/conditions for any given location using observed weather conditions from neighboring locations, radar data, lightning data, satellite imagery, etc. An initial estimate of weather con... | 07/25/2006 |
| 7062066 | Method and apparatus for short-term prediction of convective weather A method and apparatus for forecasting the likely occurrence of convective weather events, such as thunderstorms. An image filter is used to identify areas of interest within a meteorological image that are likely to contain convective weather. The image filter and ... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7054792 | Method, computer program, and system for intrinsic timescale decomposition, filtering, and automated analysis of signals of arbitrary origin or timescale A method and system for intrinsic timescale decomposition, filtering, and automated analysis of signals of arbitrary origin or timescale including receiving an input signal, determining a baseline segment and a monotonic residual segment with strictly negative minim... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7049997 | Simultaneous dual polarization radar system A simultaneous dual polarization radar system is disclosed that utilizes a RF power divider to replace the high speed dual polarization switches utilized in current dual polarization radar systems. The disclosed systems allow for transmission and reception in both h... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7049972 | Lightning strike hazard detector An accurate, fast-acting, wearable lightning strike hazard detector has a plurality of collecting plates for collection of arriving charged particles. The collecting plates are insulated from each other by an insulating mechanism. A connecting mechanism electrically... | 05/23/2006 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 6980908 | Method of forecasting precipitation for specific geographic locations Weather data is collected and used to create a master precipitation steering component grid and a master precipitation grid. These grids are then used to forecast when precipitation will start and stop at one or more identified locations with a geographic area. ... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6961662 | Systems and methods for spectral corrected lightning detection A lightning detection system provides an estimated location of a lightning stroke. The system includes sensors and an analyzer. Each sensor within range of a lightning event provides messages to the analyzer. Each sensor includes a waveform engine that converts a si... | 11/01/2005 |
| 6952630 | Method and apparatus for facilitating ease of viewing and interpretation of data concurrently presented to the flight crew on a multifunction flat panel display in an aircraft A flat panel display for presenting graphical renderings of aircraft flight, operation and system status data to an aircraft pilot renders the data at various predetermined brightness levels depending on the category of data assigned to that data. Primary data appea... | 10/04/2005 |
| 6952648 | Power disruption index Systems and methods for determining a power disruption index indicative that provides subscribers with a forecast of weather conditions that are likely to cause interruptions to power distributions systems within their specific areas of service. The Power Disruption... | 10/04/2005 |
| 6907582 | Communication of information through background modulation in an information display An apparatus includes an information display, wherein a value of a variable is selected from the group consisting of percentage of maximum daylight, sunrise, sunset, phase of the moon, tide height, wave height, wind speed, probability of precipitation, a birthday, a... | 06/14/2005 |
| 6868339 | Systems and methods for time corrected lightning detection A lightning detection system provides an estimated location of a lightning stroke. The system includes sensors, and an analyzer. Each sensor provides messages having sensor identification, an amplitude responsive to the lightning stroke, and a time of detecting the ... | 03/15/2005 |
| 6828911 | Lightning detection and prediction alarm device The present invention features a system and method for detecting and predicting lightning strikes via specialized electrostatic detection using highly sensitive atmospheric static electric detection, interpretation, and alarm signal distribution. The system employs ... | 12/07/2004 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
