US Patent Issued to The Boeing on July 7 for "Methods and systems for preventing wrong surface events" (Virginia Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,074, issued on July 7, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Methods and systems for preventing wrong surface events" was invented by Yonglian Ding (Arlington, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example implementations relate to systems and techniques for coordinating and assigning aircraft and ground vehicles to runways to prevent wrong surface events and to minimize runway incursions. An aircraft initially receives instructions identifying a runway for use by the aircraft generated by an Air Traffic Control Tower (ATCT) and then subsequently receives a runway identification (ID) code transmitted by a sensor subsystem pos...