ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,914, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Honeywell International Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Method and system for taxi assist path generation based on guidance lines of an airport" was invented by Zuowei He (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for generating a taxi assist path for an aircraft at an airport has been developed. First, a network of taxiways/runways for the airport is retrieved and used to generate multiple taxi assist paths for the aircraft from the present location of the aircraft to the destination of the aircraft. An optimum taxi assist path is selected for the aircraft from the multiple taxi ass...