US Patent Issued to URBAN SKY THEORY on Oct. 27 for "High-reliability flight termination system for balloon systems" (Colorado, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,774,079, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to URBAN SKY THEORY INC. (Denver).

"High-reliability flight termination system for balloon systems" was invented by Maxmillion J. W. Mclaughlin (Fort Myers, Fla.), Jared Leidich (Denver) and Nathan Henault (Arvada, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Balloon systems, such as for remote sensing activities in the upper atmosphere, having a dual fault tolerant termination system, which provide high-reliability termination. The balloon systems described herein include a primary termination device and a secondary termination device, each of the termination devices configured to provide allow lift gas ...