Patents by Inventor Neil M. Brice

Neil M. Brice 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).

  • Method and apparatus for triggering a substantial change in earth characteristics and measuring earth changes
    Patent number: 4042196
    Abstract: There is disclosed method and apparatus for triggering a substantial change in ionospheric characteristics of the earth and measuring certain selected characteristics of the earth. Substantial energetic particle precipitation is triggered through injection of low energy ionized gas, such as hydrogen, in the region of large fluxes of energetic particles in or near the magnetic equator. The loss process is known to occur naturally but a triggered change is achieved through injection of larger amounts of low-energy ionized gas than are naturally present, preferably in the cusp region, which usually extends inside the synchronous orbit for several hours about local midnight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 1971
    Date of Patent: August 16, 1977
    Assignee: Cornell Research Foundation, Inc.
    Inventor: Neil M. Brice
  • Method of controlling and/or improving high-latitude and other communications or radio wave surveillance systems by partial control of radio wave et al.
    Patent number: 4035726
    Abstract: There is disclosed a method of controlling high-latitude communications by cold plasma injection in the distant magnetosphere, and to thereby control the ionospheric and or magnetospheric medium through which the waves are to be propagated.This application incorporates the substance of the invention disclosed in applicant's application Ser. No. 174,047 filed concurrently herewith and now abandoned.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 1971
    Date of Patent: July 12, 1977
    Inventors: Neil M. Brice, deceased, Marilyn J. Brice, executrix
  • Method and apparatus for controlling earth orbiting satellites and vehicles inter alia
    Patent number: 4033524
    Abstract: There is disclosed a method of controlling, inter alia, earth orbiting satellites and vehicles by cold plasma injection control in the magnetosphere and thereby influencing the space medium through which the satellite travels. The injection of cold plasma changes the atmospheric drag on the satellite as it traverses the earth's magnetosphere.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 1971
    Date of Patent: July 5, 1977
    Inventors: Neil M. Brice, deceased, by Marilyn J. Brice, executrix