US Patent Issued to Rockwell Collins on Nov. 3 for "Autoland anywhere system" (Minnesota, Georgia, Iowa, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,780,445, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Rockwell Collins Inc. (Cedar Rapids, Iowa).

"Autoland anywhere system" was invented by Andres Perez Rocha (Cumming, Ga.), John Roltgen (Cedar Rapids, Iowa), Juan Segal (Cedar Rapids, Iowa), Thomas Scanlon (Cedar Rapids, Iowa), Agrim Sareen (Lynnwood, Wash.) and John Perich (Duluth, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for determining an automatic landing path for an aircraft that can conduct automatic landings in many different scenarios. The system includes an aircraft landing controller, a network of sensing systems comprising a Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS), an Instrument ...