ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,774,112, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to HONEYWELL AEROSPACE US LLC (Phoenix).

"Rotary aircraft safe zone alert system" was invented by Sunit Kumar Saxena (Urbana, Ohio), William Tyson III (Urbana, Ohio), Richard Policy (Urbana, Ohio), Karthikeyan M (Madurai, India) and Gobinathan Baladhandapani (Madurai, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A safe zone alert system for a rotary aircraft that includes a fuselage and at least one rotor that is rotationally mounted on the fuselage and is configured to rotate about a rotational axis, and where the rotor has plurality of rotor blades extending therefrom. The safe zone alert system include...