US Patent Issued to Utah Valley University on Sept. 1 for "Airport tugs, systems, and methods of operation thereof" (Utah Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,722,799, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Utah Valley University (Orem, Utah).

"Airport tugs, systems, and methods of operation thereof" was invented by Brett Stone (Lehi, Utah) and Matthew James Jensen (Salt Lake City).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An exemplary airport tug is configured to navigate an airport facility autonomously. The exemplary airport tug may comprise a coupling portion configured to engage with a receiving portion of an aircraft, one or more sensors configured to collect sensor data descriptive of environmental conditions in a vicinity of the airport tug, a memory storing instructions, and one or more processors co...