US Patent Issued to Honeywell International on Sept. 1 for "Urban clutter in weather radar returns" (Washington Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,119, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Honeywell International Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Urban clutter in weather radar returns" was invented by Patrick Glaze (Duvall, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some examples, a system includes a memory configured to store a weather buffer and processing circuitry configured to determine, based on radar returns, a total reflectivity value for a first voxel of the weather buffer. The processing circuitry is also configured to determine that a potential for urban clutter exists in the first voxel. The processing circuitry is further configured to assign a first portion of the total reflect...