ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,765, issued on March 25, was assigned to Honeywell International Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Systems and methods for alerting when an intruder trend vector is predicted to intercept with an aircraft taxi path" was invented by Anoop S (Bangalore, India) and Mohammed Ibrahim Mohideen (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for alerting when a trend vector associated with a traffic aircraft is predicted to intercept a travel route of an ownship aircraft. A control module receives real-time aircraft state data, flight plan data, and traffic data associated with the traffic aircraft. The control module processes...