ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,780,443, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to MTI Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Display program for assisting in determining aircraft route" was invented by Kana Koike (Tokyo), Masataka Tsuchiya (Tokyo) and Hitoshi Ohtomo (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A route acquisition process of acquiring a route, a weather risk acquisition process of acquiring a weather risk as three-dimensional information, a first display process of displaying, in plan view, at least each of the route and the weather risk together, and a second display process of displaying the route and the weather risk together on a cross section cut vertically along the route are executed....