ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,251, issued on March 31, was assigned to Korea Aerospace Research Institute (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Navigation method and system using color codes" was invented by JaeWon Chang (Daejeon, South Korea), Heemin Shin (Daejeon, South Korea), Jangho Lee (Daejeon, South Korea) and YongMin Jun (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a navigation method and system using color codes. The navigation method according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes: dividing an aircraft path at a vertiport into a plurality of sub-paths based on a branch point; and selectively combining at least some of the pluralit...