ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,451, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).
"Systems and methods for improving situational awareness of aircraft within an airspace" was invented by Ajaya Srikanta Bharadwaja (Karnataka, India) and Chaitra Jagadeesh (Karnataka, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and a method include a control unit configured to determine situational information regarding a plurality of aircraft within an airspace. The control unit is configured to determine the situational information based on automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast (ADS-B) signals output by the plurality of aircraft and received by an ADS-B...