ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,486, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Airbus (S.A.S.) (Blagnac, France).
"Landing system and method" was invented by Kiran Kumar Chippa (Bristol, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A landing system for an aircraft and a method of calculating a reference path. The landing system can calculate a reference path for use during a non-precision approach to a runway, the reference path including a course, flight path angle, and anchor point. The anchor point has a longitude, a latitude and an altitude. The landing system is configured to extract from a navigation database a missed approach point corresponding to a first landing ...