US Patent Issued to BAE Systems Space & Mission Systems on May 27 for "Multi-spectral methods and systems for day and night sensing of greenhouse gas sources from space" (Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,534, issued on May 27, was assigned to BAE Systems Space & Mission Systems Inc. (Broomfield, Colo.).

"Multi-spectral methods and systems for day and night sensing of greenhouse gas sources from space" was invented by Gary D. Wiemokly (Erie, Colo.) and Timothy J. Commons (Louisville, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Multi-spectral methods and systems for the day and night remote sensing (detection, identification, and quantification) of greenhouse gas emission sources from space are provided. The sensor system includes a telescope assembly that passively collects light from an observation area and directs that light through spectr...