ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,658, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to NST Co. Ltd. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Intelligent high-tech system and method for aircraft ground guidance and control" was invented by Byoung Kwan Choi (Osan-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for aircraft ground guidance and control are characterized by: inputting to a server and managing the GPS coordinate values, representing fixed location information, of all airfield lights that are installed within an airfield and can be controlled and monitored; determining whether the real-time coordinates of a moving aircraft on radars cross the fixed coordinates of the air...