US Patent Issued to HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL on Aug. 12 for "Adaptive airdrop system and method" (Maryland, Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,384,538, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Adaptive airdrop system and method" was invented by Karl F. Roenigk (Baltimore), Thomas Dobbins (Plymouth, Minn.) and Matthew D. Wiebold (Plymouth, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An adaptive airdrop system for an aircraft includes a wind measurement system and a processing system. The wind measurement system measures at least atmospheric wind velocity and supplies wind velocity data representative thereof. The processing system is configured to adaptively sample the wind velocity data, implement a computer aided release point (CARP) model, ...