ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,276,771, issued on April 15, was assigned to Atmospheric & Space Technology Research Associates LLC (Boulder, Colo.).
"System and method for determining characteristics of traveling ionospheric disturbances" was invented by Geoffrey Crowley (Lafayette, Colo.) and Adam Reynolds (Broomfield, Colo.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention generally relates to a system and method for determining characteristics of traveling ionospheric disturbances (TIDs), and more particularly to a method and system for real time mapping of corresponding ionospheric perturbations, where in the case where the amplitude of each wave represents a he...