US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Sept. 16 for "Technology for calculating stationary wind speed from a moving vehicle" (American, Mexican Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,927, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Technology for calculating stationary wind speed from a moving vehicle" was invented by Christopher A. Kulakowski (Austin, Texas), Mauro Marzorati (Lutz, Fla.), Jeremy R. Fox (Georgetown, Texas) and Carolina Garcia Delgado (Zapopan, Mexico).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle and/or fleet of vehicles that are equipped with: (i) a wind velocity detection device (for example, an ultrasonic wind velocity detection device); and (ii) a vehicle velocity detection device (for example, lidar or a speedometer and compass). Computer hardware pe...