ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,272,250, issued on April 8, was assigned to AIRBUS OPERATIONS Ltd. (Bristol, Great Britain).
"Method of landing an aircraft" was invented by George Howell (Bristol, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of landing an aircraft in which the aircraft receives information from a second aircraft via a direct aircraft-to-aircraft communication from the second aircraft to the aircraft; determines a landing plan of the aircraft based on the information; and lands the aircraft based on the landing plan. The use of a direct aircraft-to-aircraft communication (i.e. a communication from the second aircraft to the first aircraft which...