ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,512,901, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Honeywell International Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"D-ATIS collection and dissemination systems and methods" was invented by James Buckner (Braselton, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for collecting and disseminating D-ATIS data to one or more entities are included. To collect D-ATIS information, one or more collection systems send requests to one or more ground stations. Each collection system can be located remotely from the ground station it requests D-ATIS information from. When a collection system receives D-ATIS information, it is configured to send the D-ATIS informati...