US 12,288,470 B2
Real time sonic boom warning system
Joseph Anthony Salamone, III, Centennial, CO (US)
Assigned to Boom Technology, Inc., Centennial, CO (US)
Filed by BOOM TECHNOLOGY, INC., Englewood, CO (US)
Filed on May 25, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/330,322.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/117,582, filed on Nov. 24, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0165164 A1, May 26, 2022
Int. Cl. G08G 5/00 (2006.01); B64C 30/00 (2006.01)
CPC G08G 5/0021 (2013.01) [B64C 30/00 (2013.01); G08G 5/006 (2013.01); G08G 5/0091 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method, performed by a computing system, to notify a supersonic aircraft operator of expected sonic boom strike locations, the method comprising:
receiving, while a supersonic aircraft is in flight, a real-time flight trajectory of the supersonic aircraft;
receiving, while the supersonic aircraft is in flight, atmospheric meteorological data corresponding to the real-time flight trajectory;
receiving, while the supersonic aircraft is in flight, surface geospatial data corresponding to the real-time flight trajectory;
calculating, while the supersonic aircraft is in flight, an expected location of a surface strike of a sonic boom, caused by the supersonic aircraft, based on the real-time flight trajectory, the atmospheric meteorological data, and the surface geospatial data,
wherein the expected location of the surface strike of the sonic boom is calculated based on a plurality of selected sonic boom rays, selected from a plurality of projected sonic boom rays, wherein each of the plurality of projected sonic boom rays is associated with an emission time and a surface intercept time, wherein the selected sonic boom rays are selected based on having a common surface intercept time, wherein at least a first of the selected sonic boom rays is associated with an emission time different than an emission time associated with a second of the selected sonic boom rays, and wherein at least one of the plurality of projected sonic boom rays is not included in the plurality of selected sonic boom rays;
calculating, while the supersonic aircraft is in flight and based on the location of the sonic boom surface strike, a standoff distance from a coastline or a populated region;
evaluating, while the supersonic aircraft is in flight, whether the real-time flight trajectory of the supersonic aircraft violates the standoff distance; and
if the real-time flight trajectory violates the standoff distance, providing a notification, while the supersonic aircraft is in flight, on a cockpit display of the supersonic aircraft, to the supersonic aircraft operator characterizing the standoff distance violation.