US Patent Issued to Barron Associates on Dec. 30 for "Device, system and method for emergency landing site identification, selection, routing, and confirmation" (North Carolina, Virginia, Oklahoma Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,512,005, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Barron Associates Inc. (Charlottesville, Va.).

"Device, system and method for emergency landing site identification, selection, routing, and confirmation" was invented by Nathan Douglas Richards (Durham, N.C.), Alec JacobDevine Bateman (Charlottesville, Va.) and Loyd Hook (Tulsa, Okla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a system, device and method for emergency landing assistance that leverages intelligent planning along with existing and acquired information to maximize the likelihood of locating and confirming a safe emergency landing site for an airc...