US Patent Issued to Honeywell International on July 21 for "Precision airdrop system and method" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,493, issued on July 21, was assigned to Honeywell International Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Precision airdrop system and method" was invented by Luke Zeleznak (Phoenix), George Rajan Koilpillai (Bangalore, India), Michael Jirjis (Minneapolis), Tracy Sellin (Minneapolis), Daniel Bernard (Minneapolis), Matthew Wiebold (Phymouth, Minn.) and Janaki Seetharaman (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for calculating a flight plan and a precision release point for an aircraft carrying a payload includes supplying, from a four-dimensional (4D) wind measurement system, 4D wind data indicative of atmospheric wind vel...