ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,700,318, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Airbus Operations GmbH (Hamburg, Germany).
"Guiding an aircraft at an airport" was invented by Andreas Poppe (Hamburg, Germany) and Andreas Friedel (Hamburg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and an aircraft which utilizes information from a control tower, position information of the aircraft, and a map of an airport for guiding the aircraft along taxiways. The method may comprise receiving data representing a road map of an airport, determining a position of the aircraft, receiving data representing an assigned taxiway for the aircraft, wherein the assigned taxiway is divided into ...