US Patent Issued to Airbus on Feb. 10 for "Method and system for generating a lateral trajectory of an aircraft" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,181, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Airbus SAS (Blagnac, France).

"Method and system for generating a lateral trajectory of an aircraft" was invented by Miguel Consiglieri Pedroso Mendes Dias (Blagnac, France) and Thomas Pastre (Blagnac, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To bring an aircraft in flight from an initial position to a destination, an automatic trajectory generation system: obtains polygons representative of obstacles potentially encountered by the aircraft; and searches for a lateral trajectory that is flyable by performing circumventions of polygons by their vertices, by observing a pre-established vertical traj...