US Patent Issued to Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories on Nov. 3 for "System and method for aircraft approach management" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,784,600, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories Inc. (Cambridge, Mass.).

"System and method for aircraft approach management" was invented by Abraham Puthuvana Vinod (Cambridge, Mass.), Sachiyo Yamazaki (Cambridge, Mass.), Ankush Chakrabarty (Bedford, Mass.) and Stefano Di Cairano (Newton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a system and a method for controlling an aircraft within a terminal maneuvering area (TMA) of an airport in the presence of multiple other aircraft. The method includes solving an optimal control problem subject to constraints maintaining a pre-dete...