US Patent Issued to The Boeing on Aug. 4 for "Runway incursion detection" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,700,320, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Runway incursion detection" was invented by Zachary P. Stock (Camano Island, Wash.), Hannah G. Gillespie (Seattle) and Nick S. Evans (Lynnwood, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An airport object location system comprising a number of vehicle location units, a sensor system, and a model generator. The number of vehicle location units is connected to a number of vehicles. The number of vehicle location units generate vehicle location information for the number of vehicles in an area including an operations surface at an airport and vehicle timestamps for the ve...