ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,505,752, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Skyryse Inc. (El Segundo, Calif.).

"Unplanned landing site selection for aircraft" was invented by Gonzalo Javier Rey (Torrance, Calif.) and Mark Daniel Groden (Marina Del Rey, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A landing site selection system selects landing sites for unplanned landings for small aircraft. The landing site selection system may generate a landing site database comprising parameters for landing sites. The landing sites may be any location where an aircraft may potentially land. The landing site selection system may monitor aircraft conditions and determine that an unplanned l...