US Patent Issued to ASELSAN ELEKTRONIK SANAYI VE TICARET on March 25 for "Variable protection zone collision avoidance system and method for aircraft to reduce unnecessary alerts" (Turkish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,770, issued on March 25, was assigned to ASELSAN ELEKTRONIK SANAYI VE TICARET A.S. (Ankara, Turkey).

"Variable protection zone collision avoidance system and method for aircraft to reduce unnecessary alerts" was invented by Ahmet Bora Uysal (Ankara, Turkey), Yusuf Pasa (Ankara, Turkey) and Huseyin Unal (Ankara, Turkey).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A collision avoidance system and method is provided for detecting obstacles or terrain likely to be encountered by fixed wing or rotary wing platform aircraft in bad weather conditions or at low altitude, and for alerting the user in advance."

The patent was filed on Dec. 13, 2023, under...