US Patent Issued to United States of America as represented by the Administrator of NASA on Oct. 7 for "Line climber for kite-based atmospheric profiling and remote sensing" (Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,835, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to United States of America as represented by the Administrator of NASA (Washington).

"Line climber for kite-based atmospheric profiling and remote sensing" was invented by Geoffrey L. Bland (Parksley, Va.), Joseph Bretthauer (Silver Spring, Md.) and Richard Craincross (Philadelphia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A kite-based line climber apparatus includes a fuselage; a wing assembly connected to the fuselage; an elevator assembly connected to the fuselage; and a line attachment assembly. The line attachment assembly has a pylon extending through and connected to the wing assembly and one or more c...