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| Patent title | U.S. patent | Issue date | NCAR/UCAR inventor | Lab/Program |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Frequency Compensation for Clutter Filter Bias to Radar Data | 11,300,653 | 2022-04-12 | Hubbert, John | EOL |
| Method and System for Determining Cloud Seeding Potential | 11,256,000 | 2022-02-22 | Xue, Lulin; Rasmussen, Roy; Tessendorf, Sarah | RAL |
| Optical Filter | 11,243,295 | 2022-02-08 | Spuler, Scott; Repasky, Kevin; Nehrir, Amin | EOL |
| Telescope | 11,143,748 | 2021-10-12 | Spuler, Scott | EOL |
| Method and System for Providing Quality Controlled Data From a Redundant Sensor System | 10,996,663 | 2021-05-04 | Landolt, Scott; Gaydos, Andrew; Goodrich, Robert | RAL |
| Regression Filter for Radar Data | 10,914,828 | 2021-02-09 | Hubbert, John | EOL |
| Diode Laser Based High Spectral Resolution Lidar | 10,794,998 | 2020-10-06 | Spuler, Scott; Hayman, Matt | EOL |
| Micropulse Differential Absorption Lidar | 10,605,900 | 2020-03-31 | Spuler, Scott | EOL |
| Analog Photon Counting | 10,473,521 | 2019-11-12 | Hayman, Matthew; Spuler, Scott | EOL |
| Poisson Ensemble Inversion | 10,379,024 | 2019-08-13 | Hayman, Matthew | EOL |
| Calibration of Aircraft Instruments Using a Laser Sensor | 10,352,813 | 2019-07-16 | Spuler, Scott; Spowart, Mike; Richter, Dirk; Cooper, W.A. | EOL |
| Method for Lightning Forecasting and Alert System | 10,302,816 | 2019-05-28 | Deierling, Wiebke; Ikeda, Kyoko; Steiner, Matthias | RAL |
| System and Method to Measure an Atmospheric Thermodynamic Profile With a Compact, All-Fiber and Eye-Safe Lidar | 10,295,672 | 2019-05-21 | Spuler, Scott; Abari, Farzad Cyrus Foroughi | EOL |
| Interferometer | 9,952,031 | 2018-04-24 | Hannigan, James; Mankin, William | ACOM |
| Method and System for Generating a Distance Velocity Azimuth Display (DVAD) | 9,851,441 | 2017-12-26 | Lee, Wen-Chau; Jong, Ben | EOL |
| Aircraft Expendable Instrument Launch Detector System | 9,753,183 | 2017-09-05 | Hock, Terrence | EOL |
| Dual-Polarized Radiating Patch Antenna | 9,520,655 | 2016-12-13 | Cerreno, Jorge Luis Salazar | EOL |
| Road Weather Hazard System | 9,401,089 | 2016-07-26 | Drobot, Sheldon | RAL |
| Method and System for High Volume Sample Rate Holographic Particle Measurement | 8,634,074 | 2014-01-21 | Fugal, Jacob | EOL |
| Thermal Plate Precipitation Measurement System | 8,505,377 | 2013-08-13 | Rasmussen, Roy M. | RAL |
| Optical Multi-Pass Cell | 8,508,740 | 2013-08-13 | Richter, Dirk | EOL |
| Optical Device for Correcting Geostationary Satellite Imagery for Earth Curvature Effects | 8,189,956 | 2012-05-29 | Johnson, David | RAL |
| Radiometer Including a Cleaning System | 8,182,613 | 2012-05-22 | Semmer, Steve R. | EOL |
| Self-Orienting Embedded In-Situ Flux System | 7,949,481 | 2011-05-24 | Maclean, Gordon; Militzer, John; Semmer, Steven R. | EOL |
| Method and System for Demodulation of Open-Loop GPS Radio Occultation Signals | 7,912,422 | 2011-03-22 | Rocken, Christian; Sokolovskiy, Sergey | UCP |
| Precision Polarization Optimized Optical Beam Processor | 7,869,127 | 2011-01-11 | Richter, Dirk | EOL |
| Raman Cell for High Power Applications | 7,869,469 | 2011-01-11 | Spuler, Scott | EOL |
| Method and Apparatus for Clutter Filtering Staggered Pulse Repetition Time Signals | 7,728,765 | 2010-06-01 | Hubbert, John; Meymaris, Gregory | EOL/RAL |
| Method for Generating a Representation of an Atmospheric Vortex Kinematic Structure | 7,728,760 | 2010-06-01 | Lee, Wen-Chau | EOL |
| Optical Device for Correcting Geostationary Satellite Imagery for Earth Curvature Effects | 7,676,112 | 2010-03-09 | Johnson, David | RAL |
| Lidar System for Remote Determination of Calibrated, Absolute Aerosol Backscatter Coefficients | 7,656,526 | 2010-02-02 | Mayor, Shane; Spuler, Scott | EOL |
| High Pulse-Energy, Eye-Safe Lidar System | 7,583,364 | 2009-09-01 | Mayor, Shane; Spuler, Scott | EOL |
| Polarization Lidar for the Remote Detection of Aerosol Particle Shape | 7,580,127 | 2009-08-25 | Mayor, Shane; Spuler, Scott | EOL |
| De-Icing Information System | 7,369,053 | 2008-05-06 | Hage, Frank W.; Rasmussen, Roy M. | RAL |
| Precipitation Measurement Device | 7,340,949 | 2008-03-11 | Hage, Frank W. | RAL |
| Sensor System to Distinguish Frozen and Non-Frozen Liquid Particulates | 7,191,643 | 2007-03-20 | Rasmussen, Roy M. | RAL |
| Temperature Sensor System for Mobile Platforms | 7,156,552 | 2007-01-02 | Fleming, Rex | UCP/JOSS |
| De-Icing Information System | 7,129,846 | 2006-10-31 | Rasmussen, Roy M. | RAL |
| Radar System | 7,053,813 | 2006-05-30 | Hubbert, John C. | EOL |
| Aerial Sampler System | 6,997,050 | 2006-02-14 | Fleming, Rex | UCP/JOSS |
| Method of Compensating for Atmospheric Effects While Using Near Horizon Radar Utilizing a Doppler Signal | 6,853,331 | 2005-02-08 | Rocken, Christian | UCP |
| Method of Compensating for Atmospheric Effects While Using Near Horizon Radar | 6,833,805 | 2004-12-21 | Rocken, Christian | UCP |
| Atmospheric Data Measurement System | 6,813,563 | 2004-11-02 | Bradley, William E.; Greenburg, Jim; Guenther, Alex; Prevost, Pierre; Schnell, Ryan | ACOM |
| Aerial Sampler System | 6,809,648 | 2004-10-26 | Fleming, Rex | UCP/JOSS |
| Apparatus for Gas Filter Correlation and Methods for 2-Dimensional and 3-Dimensional Atmospheric Sounding | 6,756,592 | 2004-06-29 | Khattatov, Boris; Smith, Mark | ACOM |
| Hotplate Precipitation Measuring System | 6,751,571 | 2004-06-15 | Rasmussen, Roy M. | RAL |
| Feature Classification for Time Series Data | 6,735,550 | 2004-05-11 | Cornman, Lawrence B.; Goodrich, Robert Kent; Weekley, Andrew | RAL |
| Method and System for Determining the Phase and Amplitude of a Radio Occultation Signal | 6,731,906 | 2004-05-04 | Rocken, Christian; Sokolovskiy, Sergey | UCP |
| Determining 3-Dimensional Velocity of an Object | 6,721,678 | 2004-04-13 | Vivekananadan, Jothiram; Zhang, Guifu | RAL |
| Hotplate Precipitation Measuring System | 6,714,869 | 2004-03-30 | Rasmussen, Roy M. | RAL |
| Hotplate Precipitation Measuring System | 6,711,521 | 2004-03-23 | Rasmussen, Roy M. | RAL |
| Hotplate Precipitation Measuring System | 6,708,133 | 2004-03-16 | Rasmussen, Roy M. | RAL |
| Hotplate Precipitation Measuring System | 6,675,100 | 2004-01-06 | Rasmussen, Roy M. | RAL |
| Frequency Stable Pulsed Laser | 6,633,596 | 2003-10-14 | Randall, Mitchell Alfred; Wulfmeyer, Volker G. | EOL |
| Method and Apparatus for Pivotally Mounting Instrumentation on a Line | 6,581,266 | 2003-06-24 | Bradley, William E. | ACOM |
| Multi-stage Processing for Efficient and Accurate Spectral Moment Estimation | 6,577,265 | 2003-06-10 | Beagley, Nathaniel; Cornman, Lawrence B.; Dalton, Shelly D.; Goodrich, Robert K. | RAL |
| Hotplate Precipitation Measuring System | 6,546,353 | 2003-04-08 | Rasmussen, Roy M. | RAL |
| Determining Temperature of a Physical Medium Using Remote Measurement | 6,536,948 | 2003-03-25 | Vivekananadan, Jothiram; Zhang, Guifu | RAL |
| System for Measuring Characteristic of Scatterers Using Spaced Receiver Remote Sensors (STARS) | 6,512,996 | 2003-01-28 | Praskovskaya, Eleanor A.; Praskovsky, Alexander A | RAL |
| Bistatic Radar System for Centralized, Near-Real-Time Synchronized, Processing of Data to Identify Scatterers | 6,462,699 | 2002-10-08 | Burghart, Chris Dale; Randall, Mitchell Alfred; Wurman, Joshua Michael | EOL |
| Bistatic Radar Network Having Incoherent Transmitter Operating in a Scanning Mode to Identify Scatterers | 6,456,229 | 2002-09-24 | Burghart, Chris Dale; Randall, Mitchell Alfred; Wurman, Joshua Michael | EOL |
| Radar System Having Multiple Simultaneously Tramsitted Beams Operating in a Scanning Mode to Identify Scatterers | 6,377,204 | 2002-04-23 | Randall, Mitchell Alfred; Wurman, Joshua Michael | EOL |
| High Resolution Ionospheric Modeling (HiRIM) Technique for Regional Area High-Accuracy GPS Applications | 6,356,232 | 2002-03-12 | Alber, Christoper; Braun, John; Hove, Teresa Van; Johnson, James; Rocken, Christian; Ware, Randolph H. | UCP |
| Method for Determining Storm Predictability | 6,340,946 | 2002-01-22 | Wilson, Jim | RAL |
| Method of Moment Estimation and Feature For Devices Which Measure Spectra As a Function of Range or Time (NIMA) | 6,307,500 | 2001-10-23 | Cornman, Lawrence B.; Goodrich, Robert Kent; Morse, Corrine | RAL |
| Recoverable Airborne Instrument Platform | 6,144,899 | 2000-11-07 | Lauritsen, Dean K. | EOL |