ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,692, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Honeywell International Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"System and method for camera assisted stable approach using sensor fusion" was invented by Dheeraj Gour (Bangalore, India), Anant Singh (Lucknow, India) and Jitendra Kumar (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method comprises receiving a landing request from an aircraft at a ground control center of a vertiport; activating infrared cameras at a vertiport landing site when the request is approved; searching for the aircraft based on light strobes on the aircraft using the infrared cameras; creating a virtual current approach frame of t...