ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,519, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to HONEYWELL AEROSPACE US LLC (Phoenix).

"System and method for increasing aircraft search and rescue mission effectiveness" was invented by Gobinathan Baladhandapani (Madurai, India), Hariharan Saptharishi (Madurai, India), Rahul R (Madurai, India), Sivakumar Kanagarajan (Bangalore, India), Sunit Kumar Saxena (Urbana, Ohio) and Vignesh K (Madurai, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aircraft search and rescue mission effectiveness system includes a display device, a searchlight assembly, and a searchlight processing system. The searchlight assembly emits a light beam toward, and thus illumina...