Patents by Inventor James J. Lidrbauch

James J. Lidrbauch has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • System for producing high-resolution, real-time synthetic meteorological conditions for a specified location
    Patent number: 7200491
    Abstract: Methods and articles of manufacture for estimating or deriving weather observations/conditions for any given location using observed weather conditions from neighboring locations, radar data, lightning data, satellite imagery, etc. An initial estimate of weather conditions for a location is made based on a downscaling process using the current conditions the neighboring locations. A measure of corroboration between the radar data and surface weather conditions at official observing stations may be established. Through the results of the downscaling process, radar calibration statistics and estimates of ground-based precipitation, the corroboration can be iteratively tuned, resulting in a weather conditions vector containing associated meteorological fields for locations that lie between or near the sparse network of official observing sites from which an estimate of the weather conditions may be made.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2007
    Assignee: The Weather Channel, Inc.
    Inventors: Bruce L. Rose, Jr., Ian James Miller, Peter Paul Neilley, James J. Lidrbauch, David Richard Faciane, Michael R. Kleist
  • System for producing high-resolution, real-time synthetic meteorological conditions for a specified location
    Patent number: 7082382
    Abstract: Methods and articles of manufacture for estimating or deriving weather observations/conditions for any given location using observed weather conditions from neighboring locations, radar data, lightning data, satellite imagery, etc. An initial estimate of weather conditions for a location is made based on a downscaling process using the current conditions the neighboring locations. A measure of corroboration between the radar data and surface weather conditions at official observing stations may be established. Through the results of the downscaling process, radar calibration statistics and estimates of ground-based precipitation, the corroboration can be iteratively tuned, resulting in a weather conditions vector containing associated meteorological fields for locations that lie between or near the sparse network of official observing sites from which an estimate of the weather conditions may be made.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2006
    Assignee: The Weather Channel, Inc.
    Inventors: Bruce L. Rose, Jr., Ian James Miller, Peter Paul Neilley, James J. Lidrbauch, David Richard Faciane, Michael R. Kleist