ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,520, issued on March 25, was assigned to DTN LLC (Omaha, Neb.).

"Automated global weather notification system" was invented by Ian James Miller (Marietta, Ga.) and Jason Linden Geer (Atlanta).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automated global weather notification system is provided. The automated global weather notification system is capable of obtaining observational weather data, including data form of forecast grids, and applying business rules and conditional variables to that data. Based on the business rules and conditional variables, notifications are generated. Relevant users are identified in particular geographic areas and ...