ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,831, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Airbus Defence and Space GmbH (Taufkirchen, Germany).

"Vehicle management system for controlling at least one function of a vehicle" was invented by Janaina Ribas De Amaral (Taufkirchen, Germany), Antonio Perez Acal (Taufkirchen, Germany), Alasdair Cook (Taufkirchen, Germany) and Stefan Neumeier (Taufkirchen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle management system includes a missile avoidance system that generates command for controlling at least one function of a vehicle. The missile avoidance system includes a maneuver control unit and a missile avoidance management unit. The maneu...