ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,780, issued on July 22, was assigned to Rockwell Collins Inc. (Cedar Rapids, Iowa).
"Safety monitor" was invented by Leonardo Mangeruca (Rome), Marco Marazza (Rome) and Stefano Minopoli (Rome).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A safety monitor arranged to: receive a flight plan comprising a plurality of waypoints for an aircraft to follow on a flight mission; receive hazard data corresponding to one or more hazards; generate an aircraft occupancy region comprising a four-dimensional volume corresponding to a range of possible spatial and temporal coordinates for the aircraft along the flight plan; generate a hazard occupancy region compr...