ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,073, issued on July 7, was assigned to Honeywell International Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.).
"Systems and methods for quantifying airport taxiway congestion" was invented by Navin Zacharia Kadavil (Bangalore, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for quantifying airport taxiway congestion. The systems include a database comprising airport data indicating runways of an airport and taxi edges of the airport, positions of aircraft at the airport, and taxi paths of aircraft at the airport, and one or more controllers configured to, by one or more processors, determine a number of aircraft instructed to proceed to...