US Patent Issued to Jeppesen ForeFlight on Aug. 4 for "Aircraft tail strike detection and prevention system and method" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,700,325, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Jeppesen ForeFlight Inc. (Englewood, Colo.).

"Aircraft tail strike detection and prevention system and method" was invented by Mallikarjun Karjagi (Bengaluru, India), Prasad Rao Piradi (Bengaluru, India), Gurender Singh (Bengaluru, India) and Viniil Dev (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One example of an aircraft tail strike detection and prevention system can include one or more processors that obtain one or more aircraft characteristics representative of an aircraft flying toward a landing location and one or more external characteristics representative of one or more conditions ...