ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,801, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Honeywell International Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Aircraft taxi route generation" was invented by Kameswararao Belamkonda (Charlotte, N.C.), Harithamma D (Charlotte, N.C.) and Radhe Krishna Tiwari (Charlotte, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, devices, and systems for aircraft taxi route generation are described herein. One device includes a memory, and a processor to execute executable instructions stored in the memory to receive a routing plan request for an aircraft, generate, in response to receiving the routing plan request, a taxi route for the aircraft through an airfield of an ...