ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,695, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Glass Aviation Holdings Inc. (Chicago).

"Conflict resolution for malformed blocked airspace designations" was invented by William Edward Hammersla III (Mechanicsville, Md.), Joe Galindo (Washington), Justin P. Oberman (Chicago) and Michael Manatrizio (Atlanta).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some aspects, the techniques described herein relate to a method including: receiving, by a processor, blocked airspace description data; converting, by a processor, a flight path into a plurality of latitude-longitude pairs; expanding, by the processor, the blocked airspace description data into a plurality...