ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,359, issued on April 7, was assigned to Airbus Operations SAS (Toulouse, France).
"Method and system for generating and providing descriptors of meteorological obstacles" was invented by Jean-Baptiste Berthier (Toulouse, France) and Thibault Molinier (Blagnac, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A weather data system in an aircraft which: processes georeferenced meteorological-obstacle data in order to categorize a weather severity of the meteorological obstacles and to obtain two-dimensional meteorological-obstacle images that are separated by weather-severity level; polygonizes through outline simplification the meteorological ob...