Recast Systems is building precision weather modification, the ability to ease drought and floods by shaping the weather itself. To protect the science behind that work, Recast’s patents run on Fearn.

At Recast, every mission feeds the next. Cloud seeding has been in use since the 1940s, and it works, but measuring the effect of any single flight is a hard problem. Recast collects measurements on each mission and sends the results back into its weather models, so each operation is more precise than the last.

That loop takes several fields at once: biology for the seeding materials, hardware to disperse them, sensors to measure the results, software for the models, and the operations behind each flight. Recast’s team covers all of it, and this year it flew its seasonal missions over New Mexico and Texas.

Recast’s patents have to keep up with all of that work, and the first drafts came from inside the company. Kiran Kling, its Head of Operations, wrote the provisional applications with an AI agent he had set up for the job, drawing on hours of recorded conversations with Recast’s leadership. The lawyers who advise Recast told the team the drafts were in good shape, but Recast held them to a higher bar.

“What we had written was good, but it wasn’t great, and it needed to be great for our needs.”

— Kiran Kling, Head of Operations, Recast Systems

Recast engaged Fearn as its patent counsel, and a Fearn patent expert with a PhD in biology led the work. Fearn built the applications on Recast’s drafts, so the team’s understanding stayed in every one of them. It also found patentable work beyond what the drafts covered, and checked what had already been shared outside the company.

Recast’s science advances every season, so timing mattered as much as coverage under the United States’ first-to-file rule, and Recast and Fearn set a filing plan together. Fearn drafts with its own AI models, so the first full versions reached Recast within a few days. The finished applications covered the same ideas as the drafts and cleared Recast’s bar.

Kling read the applications on two cross-country flights, then worked through Fearn’s comments in its client portal and took the rest to a Slack channel Recast shares with Fearn. When Recast signed off, Fearn filed with the USPTO.

“We hold our science to a high standard, and we wanted our patents held to the same one. Kiran gave us a strong start, and Fearn got us the rest of the way.”

— Olivia Li, CEO, Recast Systems

At Recast, every mission still feeds the next, and now the science has coverage of its own.