US Patent Issued to Rockwell Collins on May 20 for "Vertical situation display using cell-based architecture" (Iowa Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,331, issued on May 20, was assigned to Rockwell Collins Inc. (Cedar Rapids, Iowa).

"Vertical situation display using cell-based architecture" was invented by Venkata A. Sishtla (Cedar Rapids, Iowa), Divesh Lakhi (Cedar Rapids, Iowa), Mark Fersdahl (Cedar Rapids, Iowa) and Jeffery A. Finley (Cedar Rapids, Iowa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A radar system performs a plurality of horizontal scans; from the horizontal scans, the radar system identifies several cells. Based on the horizontal scans, the radar system produces a first vertical profile that is applied to the identified cells. The radar system performs one or more vertical sc...