ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,428,169, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Honeywell International Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Airport gate visual docking guidance system digital twin" was invented by Jayaprakash Meruva (Bangalore, India), Rajesh V. Poojary (Bangalore, India), Sachin Kumar S. (Kerala, India) and Ganapati Hegde (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Airport gate visual docking guidance system digital twin methods, systems, and devices are described herein. One method includes: identifying that a device of the visual docking guidance system is non-responsive, determining which device is non-responsive, initiating start-up of one visual docking ...