ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,399, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Honeywell International Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Distributed event management framework for aerial vehicles" was invented by Jan Beran (Charlotte, N.C.), Pavel Drasil (Slapanice, Czech Republic), Jiri Svoboda (Brno, Czech Republic), Miroslav Matousek (Brno, Czech Republic) and Dorin Maxim (Brno, Czech Republic).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to an event management framework configured to mitigate events impacting the operation of a vehicle. Embodiments can receive a set of vehicle operation constraints, receive vehicle sensor data, and receive t...