ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,767, issued on March 25, was assigned to GOODRICH Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Smart aircraft towing system" was invented by Santhosh Muralidharan (Bangalore, India), Suhas Venkata Prithvi Gorthi (Rajahmundry, India), Manjunatha Kamala (Bangalore, India), Prashant Kokati (Bangalore, India), Vishwas Bantanahal (Bangalore, India), Ashutosh Kumar Jha (Bangalore, India), Vishwanath Gurushankar (Bangalore, India), Srikant Mahor (Bangalore, India) and Raghavendra Horeyala Gopala (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is disclosed here. The method includes receiving an input from an aircraft, determining a towing status of ...