Geophysics Patents for Sale or License

Dust storms throughout Sahara Africa, the Middle East and Asia are estimated to place between 200-5000 million metric tons of mineral dust into the earth's atmosphere each year. Dust storms directly affect visibility and impact daily commercial and military operations near desert regions. There is a...

One use for radio frequency beacons is to track the position of spacecraft that are in orbit outside the earth's atmosphere. It is important to know the position of such spacecraft as exactly as possible in order to aim ground based systems that are in communication with the spacecraft. Position inf...

Abstract: NASA Marshall Space Flight Center developed this technology in effort to reduce the size of microgravity vibration isolation systems. The technology can be configured as a rotary position sensor, similar to conventional resolvers, but it uses a different concept for sensing rotary positio...

A direct contact condenser having a downward vapor flow chamber and an upward vapor flow chamber, wherein each of the vapor flow chambers includes a plurality of cooling liquid supplying pipes and a vapor-liquid contact medium disposed thereunder to facilitate contact and direct heat exchange betwee...