ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,770, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Honeywell International Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"System and method to intuitively represent the separation of aircraft traffic" was invented by Anoop S (Bangalore, India), Sadguni Venkataswamy (Bangalore, India), Gang He (Morris Plains, N.J.), David Wright (Phoenix), Robin Girdhar (Bangalore, India) and Naseeruddin Mohammed (Phoenix).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for dynamically representing the separation for air traffic has been developed. First, air traffic is detected which requires maintenance of a separation distance from an ownship aircraft. The ground speed of the ow...