US Patent Issued to LTA Research and Exploration on April 15 for "Systems and methods for measuring lift of a gas cell" (Ohio, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,275,515, issued on April 15, was assigned to LTA Research and Exploration LLC (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for measuring lift of a gas cell" was invented by Kyle Vernyi (Akron, Ohio), Dennis L. Carter (Hudson, Ohio) and Jonathan Wittmer (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed invention describes a method for determining a lift of a gas cell of an airship. A computing device receives depth measurements of an interior surface of the gas cell comprising a lifting gas using a lidar sensor positioned outside at the top of the gas cell. The computing device performs a particular integration on the depth measurem...