US Patent Issued to Rosemount Aerospace on Feb. 10 for "Contrail detection channel for a laser air data system" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,546,684, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Rosemount Aerospace Inc. (Burnsville, Minn.).

"Contrail detection channel for a laser air data system" was invented by Jaime A. Sly (Savage, Minn.), Joshua A. Boelman (Farmington, Minn.) and Phillip Acott (Burnsville, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus and associated methods relate to measuring metrics of a contrail produced by an aircraft engine. To measure such metrics, a beam of light is projected into a projection volume that intersects an exhaust path of the aircraft engine. Light from a reception volume that intersects the exhaust path of the aircraft engine is received. An in...