ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,474, issued on March 24, was assigned to TK Airport Solutions S.A. (Mieres, Spain).
"Visual docking guidance system" was invented by Martin Martinez (Anderslov, Sweden), Joachim Brink (Limhamn, Sweden) and Frederik Petry (Hamburg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments herein are directed to a visual docking guidance system configured to support an aircraft docking procedure where an approaching aircraft is docked at an airport stand. The VDGS is configured to detect the presence of the aircraft approaching the stand, identify at least the type of the approaching aircraft, determine a position of the approaching aircraft...