US Patent Issued to Honeywell International on Feb. 24 for "Systems and methods providing assist-to-land emergency land functions" (Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,562,069, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Honeywell International Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Systems and methods providing assist-to-land emergency land functions" was invented by Michael Mast (Sun City, Ariz.), Yuta Morioka (Tempe, Ariz.) and Jeffrey Glenn (Phoenix).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Flight guidance methods, systems, and aircraft systems providing assist-to-land emergency land (EL) functions. The method includes generating a visual indication of the availability and status of an assist-to-land function and an EL function when the current altitude of the aircraft exceeds an altitude threshold. When in assist-to-land, visual a...