ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,543,666, issued on Feb. 10.
"Intelligent systems for weather modification programs" was invented by Thomas Peter DeFelice (Sheboygan, Wis.) and Duncan Axisa (Boulder, Colo.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Data including current locations of candidate clouds to be seeded is obtained; based on same, a vehicle is caused to move proximate at least one of the candidate clouds to be seeded. Weather and cloud system data are obtained from a sensor suite associated with the vehicle, while the vehicle and sensor suite are proximate the at least one of the candidate clouds to be seeded. Vehicle position parameters are obtained from the sensor suite...