ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,770,480, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Honeywell International Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.).
"Airfield luminaire obstruction detection" was invented by Nipun Kumar Chawda (Bangalore, India), Karunakar Mahadevappa Kamadolli (Dharwad, India) and Inayat Nandihalli (Bangalore, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, devices, and systems for airfield luminaire obstruction detection are described herein. In some examples, one or more embodiments include a controller for airfield luminaire obstruction detection, comprising a memory, and a processor configured to execute instructions stored in the memory to receive a signal from a light sen...