US Patent Issued to HONEYWELL AEROSPACE US on Oct. 20 for "Airborne docking guidance system and method" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,770,522, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to HONEYWELL AEROSPACE US LLC (Phoenix).

"Airborne docking guidance system and method" was invented by Peddaiah Thappeta (Bangalore, India) and George Rajan Koilpillai (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for providing airport docking guidance for an aircraft includes supplying, from an airport gate database, airport gate data parking data indicative of gate position points and a gate aircraft parking headings. Aircraft data is supplied from an aircraft data source. Position error data is supplied from a position error receiving system. Airport gate data for one air...