US Patent Issued to General Electric on March 18 for "Aircraft conflict detection and resolution" (New York, Michigan, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,778, issued on March 18, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).

"Aircraft conflict detection and resolution" was invented by Baoluo Meng (Frisco, Texas), Szabolcs Andras Borgyos (Grand Rapids, Mich.), Michael Richard Durling (Gansevoort, N.Y.) and Saswata Paul (Troy, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatus and systems for generating verifiable conflict-free flight plans for aircraft are disclosed. In an embodiment, a server computer receives a set of air traffic flight plans for an airspace that includes elements, and receives at least two of aerodynamic constraint data, business constraint data and op...