US Patent Issued to AVIATION COMMUNICATION & SURVEILLANCE SYSTEMS on Oct. 21 for "Apparatus and method for cockpit depiction of obstacle location" (Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,448,146, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to AVIATION COMMUNICATION & SURVEILLANCE SYSTEMS LLC (Phoenix).

"Apparatus and method for cockpit depiction of obstacle location" was invented by Jay Bryan Crossman (Phoenix), Paul Albert Voisin (Phoenix) and Tyler Paul Hilt (Phoenix).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method of alerting a pilot of an aircraft are provided. The method includes obtaining a track list of detected objects; for each detected object, determining a first alert factor based on a rate of closure to the aircraft and determining a second alert factor based on an azimuth. An alert list is created including each of th...