ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,269,610, issued on April 8, was assigned to Honeywell International Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Systems and methods for providing safe landing assistance for an aerial vehicle" was invented by Jayasenthilnathan Balasubramanian (Phoenix), Byron Birkedahl (Phoenix), Kalimulla Khan (Karnataka, India) and Srihari Jayathirtha (Atlanta).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable medium for providing a safe landing for an aerial vehicle. The method may include: displaying, on one or more displays, an aerial vehicle, an intended landing zone, and a real-time flight path of the vehicle as the v...