US Patent Issued to Rockwell Collins on June 23 for "Cooperative and non-cooperative surface management" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,900, issued on June 23, was assigned to Rockwell Collins Inc. (Cedar Rapids, Iowa).

"Cooperative and non-cooperative surface management" was invented by Justin A. Domenech (Melbourne, Fla.) and Mark A. Billsberry (Indialantic, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for aircraft surface navigation is disclosed. The method may include receiving W-band data from a W-band sensor configured to detect objects including non-cooperative aircraft. The method may also include receiving Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) data from an ADS-B receiver configured to receive ADS-B signals from cooperative aircraft. A...