Patents by Inventor Jared Kauffman Gill

Jared Kauffman Gill 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).

  • Cloud mask data acquisition and distribution using geosynchronous communications or broadcast satellites
    Patent number: 10230454
    Abstract: Cloud mask image data is obtained by a secondary imaging payload disposed on a communications or broadcast satellite operating in geosynchronous orbit. The obtained cloud mask image data is provisioned for use, in near real time, by one or more low earth orbit imaging satellite systems. Provisioning the obtained cloud mask image data may include collecting the data on the ground and making it available to one or more operators of the one or more LEO imaging satellite systems and/or transmitting the data from the communications or broadcast satellite to at least one spacecraft in the one or more LEO imaging satellite systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2019
    Assignee: Space Systems/Loral, LLC
    Inventors: Jared Kauffman Gill, Saghir Munir
  • CLOUD MASK DATA ACQUISITION AND DISTRIBUTION USING GEOSYNCHRONOUS COMMUNICATIONS OR BROADCAST SATELLITES
    Publication number: 20180062735
    Abstract: Cloud mask image data is obtained by a secondary imaging payload disposed on a communications or broadcast satellite operating in geosynchronous orbit. The obtained cloud mask image data is provisioned for use, in near real time, by one or more low earth orbit imaging satellite systems. Provisioning the obtained cloud mask image data may include collecting the data on the ground and making it available to one or more operators of the one or more LEO imaging satellite systems and/or transmitting the data from the communications or broadcast satellite to at least one spacecraft in the one or more LEO imaging satellite systems.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2016
    Publication date: March 1, 2018
    Inventors: Jared Kauffman Gill, Saghir Munir