ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,562,071, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Rockwell Collins France S.A.S. (Blagnac, France).
"Lateral avoidance trajectories" was invented by Philippe Salmon (Colomiers, France) and Elias Bitar (Tournefeuille, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for calculating lateral avoidance trajectories for an aircraft includes obtaining data indicative of current aircraft position, current track, current roll, current airspeed, current vertical speed, current altitude, and maximum achievable roll of the aircraft. The method includes calculating a current trajectory of the aircraft and calculating a left trajectory and right trajectory o...