A public catalog for aerospace companies and small businesses. Search facilities, instruments, equipment, data, software, expertise, partnerships, and intellectual property held by Colorado organizations. Names and descriptions are copied from official pages.
541 assets from 19 organizations
38 of 541 assets
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA Boulder)Intellectual Property
An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) version of the AirCore technique invented by NOAA: a small pump pulls air through a roughly 50 m stainless-steel tube during flight so air can be sampled along the flight path, and the samples are analyzed…
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder Laboratories (NIST Boulder)Intellectual Property
Broadband electrical-substitution radiometer with thermal isolation platform, electrical thermometer-heater and optical absorber that measures radiant power without external calibration and scales into focal-plane arrays. NIST inventors…
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)Intellectual Property
Issued patent for an airborne-particle detector with two emitter units (light emitters and imaging elements) that send opposed, antiparallel beams into a scattering region, and a photodetector that detects the scattered light.
Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP)Intellectual Property
PCT application for an apparatus that charges solid particles with an electron beam and deflects them with an electric field in a sorting corridor to separate them by size, with a second pass sorting same-size particles by surface…
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)Intellectual Property
Published patent application for a nitrogen dioxide measuring apparatus whose components, pump and power consumption suit use on a UAV, including measuring vertical profiles of ambient nitrogen dioxide from a rotary-wing UAV.
Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences (CU Smead AES)Intellectual Property
Balloon-borne instrument measuring stratospheric turbulence during slow descent, with onboard data compression, telemetry to a ground station, self-calibration and turbulence-parameter extraction; AFRL-supported (HYFLITS project). Inventor…
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)Intellectual Property
U.S. patent 11,888,660-B2 "Band Filter for Filtering a Discrete Time Series Signal", issued 2024-01-30; NCAR/UCAR inventor(s) Hubbert, John (EOL). Listed on UCAR's current-patents page as available for licensing; no further detail on the…
Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences (CU Smead AES)Intellectual Property
Electron gun that uses light sources and the photoelectric effect inside a series of differentially charged stages to emit a field-focused beam with two or more tunable electron energies. Inventors Wilson, Bengtson, Schaub, Turpen;…
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder Laboratories (NIST Boulder)Intellectual Property
On-chip photonic bolometer using heat-resistant carbon-nanotube absorbers and a photonic temperature sensor read out by optical frequency shifts, detecting ultraviolet to far-infrared light for thermal imaging. NIST inventors Klimov,…
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder Laboratories (NIST Boulder)Intellectual Property
Lithographically fabricated vacuum package producing a collimated atomic beam with on-chip atomic vapor source and passive pumps, aimed at chip-scale atomic clocks and interferometers with better long-term stability than vapor-cell…
University of Denver Unmanned Systems Research Institute (DU USRI)Intellectual Property
US patent 10,730,607 B2 for a circulation control system for aerial vehicles in which an onboard air supply unit generates mass air flow delivered over the wing; inventors include Rutherford and Valavanis; assignee Colorado Seminary.
Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics (JILA)Intellectual Property
US patent 6,201,638 B1 for a low-loss comb-generating optical cavity with an optical amplifier and a microwave-driven electro-optic modulator crystal producing equally spaced optical frequency sidebands; inventors Hall, Diddams, Ma and Ye.
Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences (CU Smead AES)Intellectual Property
Electric field mill with a rotor/shaft grounding path through a bearing packed with conductive grease, a removable bearing washer, peak-detection digital signal processing, and a GPS-disciplined sampling clock with cellular connectivity…
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)Intellectual Property
Patent publication for a system that forecasts when and where solar flares will occur. It masks an image of the solar disk, builds an intensity histogram, stores full-disk images and sub-images of possible pre-flare signature sites, and…
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)Intellectual Property
U.S. patent 12,061,287 B2 "Differential Absorption Lidar for Profiling Temperature", issued 2024-08-13; NCAR/UCAR inventor(s) Stillwell, Robert; Spuler, Scott; Hayman, Matthew; Repasky, Kevin S. (EOL). Listed on UCAR's current-patents page…
Center for Laser Sensing and Diagnostics (CSU CLSD)Intellectual Property
US patent 7,340,129 B2 for a fiber-laser-coupled optical spark delivery system that generates a spark from a laser beam delivered through a hollow fiber and launch focusing optics; inventors Yalin, Willson, Defoort, Joshi and Reynolds.
Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics (JILA)Intellectual Property
US patent 7,538,881 B2 for frequency comb cavity enhanced spectroscopy: a broadband optical frequency comb coupled to a high-finesse optical cavity holding a sample gas, with the output dispersed into many data channels; inventors Ye,…
University of Denver Unmanned Systems Research Institute (DU USRI)Intellectual Property
US patent 10,145,950 B2 for a frequency shift keyed continuous wave radar for target detection and avoidance, with a microwave front end, analog signal conditioning and digital signal processing modules; assignee Colorado Seminary.
Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences (CU Smead AES)Intellectual Property
Localizes radio-frequency interference (RFI) emitters that disrupt GNSS receivers by fusing location estimates from two or more localization techniques for better accuracy than any single method. Inventors Akos, Blay, Shivaramaiah;…
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder Laboratories (NIST Boulder)Intellectual Property
SHEEP technique that reconstructs a full interferometer fringe from several phase set points to extract small rotation rates in point-source atom interferometer gyroscopes, for future inertial navigation systems. NIST inventors Kitching,…
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)Intellectual Property
U.S. patent 9,952,031 "Interferometer", issued 2018-04-24; NCAR/UCAR inventor(s) Hannigan, James; Mankin, William (ACOM). Listed on UCAR's current-patents page as available for licensing; no further detail on the page.
Center for Laser Sensing and Diagnostics (CSU CLSD)Intellectual Property
US patent application 2021/0349013 A1 for laser sensing of trace gases: determining species concentration from optical loss data collected over a range of frequencies with a spectroscopy system; inventor Azer P. Yalin.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA Boulder)Intellectual Property
US patent 9,804,138 B2 for a compact detector measuring total reactive nitrogen (NOy), NO2, NO and O3 by laser diode cavity ring-down spectroscopy at 405 nm, with conversion of O3 and NO to NO2; inventors Brown, Dubé and Wild.
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)Intellectual Property
U.S. patent 11,256,000 "Method and System for Determining Cloud Seeding Potential", issued 2022-02-22; NCAR/UCAR inventor(s) Xue, Lulin; Rasmussen, Roy; Tessendorf, Sarah (RAL). Listed on UCAR's current-patents page as available for…
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)Intellectual Property
Expired patent (filed 1987 by CIRES) for a post-column photochemical reaction that improves HPLC detection limits, to about 0.5–10 pg, for compounds absorbing at 240–800 nm. It uses singlet oxygen reactions with substituted furans, with UV…
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA Boulder)Intellectual Property
US patent 11,415,859 B2 for methods and apparatus to detect atmospheric nitric oxide at signal levels that can distinguish NO isotopologues; inventor Andrew Rollins.
Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP)Intellectual Property
Granted US patent on cleaning dust from a substrate by irradiating the dust layer with an electron beam, so that secondary electrons charge neighboring particles and the resulting electrostatic repulsion ejects them from the surface;…
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)Intellectual Property
Patent for a fast digital light source tracker on a moving ground-based or airborne platform: two rotating mirrors, a lens, an imaging camera and a real-time motion compensation system. It can feed UV-Vis and FTIR spectrometers to measure…
Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics (JILA)Intellectual Property
US patent 6,831,935 B2 for staged synchronization of two pulsed radiation sources such as mode-locked lasers, first by repetition rate and then at finer stages; inventors Ye, Kapteyn, Hall, Shelton, Murnane and Ma.
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)Intellectual Property
U.S. patent 11,243,295 "Optical Filter", issued 2022-02-08; NCAR/UCAR inventor(s) Spuler, Scott; Repasky, Kevin; Nehrir, Amin (EOL). Listed on UCAR's current-patents page as available for licensing; no further detail on the page.
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder Laboratories (NIST Boulder)Intellectual Property
Two-way exchange of frequency-comb pulses over free-space optical links to compare and synchronize clocks at femtosecond level between terrestrial, airborne or satellite sites, also enabling coherent microwave generation at remote sites.…
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA Boulder)Intellectual Property
US patent 12,523,598 B2 for an ozone photometer: an absorption cell with a bounded chamber for an ambient air sample and a light source transmitting through it to detect ozone; inventors Ru-Shan Gao and Steven Ciciora.
BioServe Space Technologies (BioServe)Intellectual Property
US patent 7,660,698 B1 for phytometric intelligence sensors that determine when plants need watering from real-time leaf measurements and signal the grower; assignees University of Colorado Boulder and AgriHouse.
BioServe Space Technologies (BioServe)Intellectual Property
US patent 5,947,334 for a post-mix beverage system for space that mixes and optionally carbonates and dispenses beverages in microgravity from chilled syrup, water and CO2 sources; assignee Coca-Cola; inventors include Hoehn and Stodieck.
University of Denver Unmanned Systems Research Institute (DU USRI)Intellectual Property
US patent 9,971,021 B2 for a UAV radar apparatus for aircraft detection and avoidance with an RF front end and filtering module; inventors Moses, Rutherford and Valavanis; assignee Colorado Seminary.
Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences (CU Smead AES)Intellectual Property
Dynamically configured antenna module for dual- or multi-frequency GNSS receivers that detects RFI saturation with a power detector and uses control logic to isolate an unsaturated frequency for positioning. Inventors Akos, Shivaramaiah,…
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA Boulder)Intellectual Property
US patent 9,761,431 B2 for expressing the ion path in a time-of-flight mass spectrometer with two successive curved sectors in an S-shaped configuration so the output beam runs parallel to the input; inventor Daniel Murphy.
Center for Laser Sensing and Diagnostics (CSU CLSD)Intellectual Property
US patent 8,740,432 B2 for transmitting high-beam-quality laser pulses through large-core step-index silica fibers whose thick cladding suppresses diffusion of modal power to higher-order modes; inventors Yalin and Joshi.