UCAR's 2011 Patent Awards
The Office of General Counsel honors UCAR/NCAR/UCP employees at the 2011 Patent Awards Luncheon, held at Carelli's of Boulder Ristorante Italiano on Thursday, June 9, 2011. All inventors received a plaque in honor of their patent issuing. The plaque included a brief abstract of the invention, an image/drawing of the invention, date the patent was issued, along with the inventor and lab/division name.

(L to R): Jack Fellows,
Gregory Meymaris, Roy Rasmussen, Dirk Richter, Rick Anthes, Rondal Moore,
John Hubbert, Wen-Chau Lee, Roger Wakimoto, Scott Spuler, Rex Fleming, David Johnson,
Chris Rocken, Sergey Sokolovski

Rex Fleming
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Patent Title: Aerial sampler system
US Patent #: 6,997,050
Issued: February 14, 2006
Patent Title: Temperature sensor system for mobile platforms
US Patent #: 7,156,552
Issued: January 2, 2007
Inventor: Rex Fleming
Lab: Joint Office for Science Support (JOSS)
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John Hubbert |
Patent Title: Radar System
US Patent #: 7,053,813
Issued: May 30, 2006
Inventor: John Hubbert
Lab: Earth Observing Laboratory (EOL) |
Patent Title: Method and apparatus for clutter filtering staggered pulse repetition time signals
US Patent #: 7,728,765
Issued: June 1, 2010
Inventors: John Hubbert, Gregory Meymaris
Lab: Earth Observing Laboratory (EOL) |

Gregory Meymaris |
Patent Title: Optical device for correcting geostationary satellite imagery for earth curvature effects
US Patent #: 7,676,112
Issued: March 9, 2011
Inventor: David Johnson
Lab: Research Applications Laboratory (RAL) |

David Johnson |

Wen-Chau Lee |
Patent Title: Method for generating a representation of an atmospheric vortex kinematic structure
US Patent #: 7,728,760
Issued: June 1, 2010
Inventors: Wen-Chau Lee
Lab: Earth Observing Laboratory (EOL) |

Roy Rasmussen |
Patent Title: Sensor system to distinguish frozen and non-frozen liquid particulates
US Patent #: 7,191,643
Issued: March 20, 2007
Patent Title: De-icing information system
US Patent #: 7,369,053
Issued: May 6, 2008
Inventor: Roy Rasmussen
Lab: Research Applications Laboratory (RAL) |
Patent Title: Precision polarization optimized optical beam processor
US Patent #: 7,869,127
Issued: January 1, 2011
Inventors: Dirk Richter
Lab: Earth Observing Laboratory (EOL) |

Dirk Richter |
Patent Title: Method and system for demodulation of open- loop GPS radio occulation signals
US Patent #: 7,912,422
Issued: March 22, 2011
Inventors: Chris Rocken, Sergey Sokolovsky
Lab: Constellation Observing System for Meteorology Ionosphere & Climate (COSMIC) |

Chris Rocken and Sergey Sokolovsky |
 Scott Spuler |
Patent Title: Polarization lidar for the remote detection of aerosol particle shape
US Patent #: 7,580,127
Issued: August 25, 2009
Patent Title: High pulse-energy, eye-safe lidar system
US Patent #: 7,583,364
Issued: September 1, 2009
Patent Title: Lidar system for remote determination of calibrated, absolute aerosol backscatter coefficients
US Patent #: 7,656,526
Issued: February 2, 2010
Patent Title: Raman cell for high power applications
US Patent #: 7,869,469
Issued: January 11, 2011
Inventor: Scott Spuler
Lab: Earth Observing Laboratory (EOL) |
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