US Patent Issued to CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE, Universite Cote d'Azur, Observatoire de la Cote d'Azur on June 23 for "Method and device for evaluating parameters characterizing atmospheric turbulence" (French Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,559, issued on June 23, was assigned to CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE (Paris), Universite Cote d'Azur (Nice, France) and Observatoire de la Cote d'Azur (Nice, France).

"Method and device for evaluating parameters characterizing atmospheric turbulence" was invented by Aziz Ziad (Falicon, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for characterizing the atmospheric turbulence, includes acquiring images of a celestial object by means of a camera coupled to a small telescope; analyzing the acquired images to determine angle of arrival fluctuations of wavefronts from positions of spots formed by the celestial object in ...