US Patent Issued to Airbus Operations on Jan. 27 for "Method and system for assisting the avoidance of an excursion by an aircraft from a runway or taxiway of an aerodrome" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,915, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Airbus Operations SAS (Toulouse, France).

"Method and system for assisting the avoidance of an excursion by an aircraft from a runway or taxiway of an aerodrome" was invented by Emilie Claudel (Toulouse, France), Isabelle Sentissi (Toulouse, France) and Louise Faure (Toulouse, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The system for assisting the avoidance of an excursion by an aircraft from a runway or taxiway of an aerodrome includes a unit for monitoring the aerodrome so as to allow the detection, by optical detection, of a characteristic element of a pathway, for determining a current relative ...