US Patent Issued to Otto Aero on July 22 for "System and apparatus for automatic selection of alternate landing site from a hierarchy of landing sites" (Nebraska Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,782, issued on July 22, was assigned to Otto Aero Co. (Omaha, Neb.).

"System and apparatus for automatic selection of alternate landing site from a hierarchy of landing sites" was invented by Sean Patrick Suiter (Omaha, Neb.) and Richard Andrew Kruse (Omaha, Neb.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An alternate landing site selector system and apparatus utilizing a hierarchy calculator for automatically ranking a plurality of alternate landing sites by assigning a suitability value to each of the alternate landing sites corresponding to that site's suitability for landing, wherein the assigned suitability value is based on at least distan...