ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,036, issued on April 21, was assigned to Honeywell International Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.).
"Methods and systems for providing conditional estimated arrival times" was invented by Stanislav Foltan (Brno, Czech Republic), Marek Batelka (Brno, Czech Republic) and Rajesh Chaubey (Bangalore, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aircraft systems and methods are provided for assisting sequencing of aircraft by providing conditional estimated arrival times for short arrivals or early clearances. One method involves identifying a geographic location associated with a merge point for an approach to an airport associated with a flight plan for a...