US Patent Issued to The Boeing on Jan. 20 for "Systems and methods for vectoring aircraft in relation to an air traffic service route" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,977, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Systems and methods for vectoring aircraft in relation to an air traffic service route" was invented by Chaitanya Pavan Kumar Aripirala (Karnataka, India), Ajaya Srikanta Bharadwaja (Karnataka, India) and Veeresh Kumar Masaru Narasimhulu (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 receive a vectoring path for an aircraft. The vectoring path diverts from an air traffic service route for the aircraft. The control unit is further configured to automatically determine segments of the vectoring path, au...