US Patent Issued to Honeywell International on Feb. 17 for "Systems and methods for diminishing vehicle contrails" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,484, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Honeywell International Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Systems and methods for diminishing vehicle contrails" was invented by Thomas Dobbins (Watertown, Minn.), Patrick Conry (Minnetonka, Minn.) and Matthew Wiebold (Mankato, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A technological improvement to a system for vehicle navigation is provided. The improvement diminishes a contribution to global climate change, e.g., global warming, by generating a flight path (generated flight path) or modifying the flight path (modified flight path) of a vehicle to avoid an atmospheric region in which the vehicle would crea...