US Patent Issued to Airbus (S.A.S.), Airbus Operations (S.A.S.) on March 24 for "Method and system for automatically guiding an aircraft to a landing runway" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,476, issued on March 24, was assigned to Airbus (S.A.S.) (Blagnac, France) and Airbus Operations (S.A.S.) (Toulouse, France).

"Method and system for automatically guiding an aircraft to a landing runway" was invented by Monika Litvova (Toulouse, France), Emmanuel Penverne (Toulouse, France), Denys Bernard (Blagnac, France) and Albert Gine Soca (Toulouse, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for automatically guiding an aircraft includes receiving an ATIS message and decoding the content of the ATIS message. If the decoded content of the ATIS message includes a parameter relating to an active landing runway, the method incl...