US Patent Issued to Rosemount Aerospace on Sept. 22 for "Air-data system with background light detection using a background rejection filter" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,742,884, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Rosemount Aerospace Inc. (Burnsville, Minn.).

"Air-data system with background light detection using a background rejection filter" was invented by Mark S. Miller (Lakeville, Minn.) and Phillip Acott (Burnsville, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus and associated methods relate to improving measurement of metrics determined by laser air-data systems subject to unwanted background light. Such measurements are improved by estimating and excising the unwanted background light from the total light received by an optical receiver which receives a Doppler-shifted reflected portion of a p...