US Patent Issued to SPACE BALLOON TECHNOLOGIES on May 27 for "Apparatus, method and system for balloon altitude control by in-situ characterization and active energy management" (Florida Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,312,063, issued on May 27, was assigned to SPACE BALLOON TECHNOLOGIES CORP. (Daytona Beach, Fla.).

"Apparatus, method and system for balloon altitude control by in-situ characterization and active energy management" was invented by Pradeep Shinde (Miami).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention comprises an apparatus, method for using the apparatus and system for balloon altitude control by in-situ characterization and active energy management. The invention presented enables transportation, autonomous operation and use of a balloon beyond the limits of conventional high-altitude ballooning to the edge of the atmosphere, or about 100 ...