ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,349, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to University of Washington (Seattle).
"Generation of approach and landing trajectories with operational constraints for aircraft with multiple degrees of freedom" was invented by Taewan Kim (Seattle), Niyousha Rahimi (Seattle), Abhinav G. Kamath (Seattle), Behcet Acikmese (Seattle) and Mehran Mesbahi (Seattle).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system can include a processing device and a memory having instructions that are executable by the processing device for causing the processing device to perform operations. The operations may involve receiving or determine one or more operational constraints...