ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,696, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Rockwell Collins Inc. (Cedar Rapids, Iowa).
"Multiparameter weighted landing runway detection algorithm" was invented by Egor Kosyanchuk (Marion, Iowa).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system is described. The system predicts a landing runway for the aircraft. The landing runway is predicted using geometry and parameters which describe the position of the aircraft in space. The parameters include track alignment, vector alignment, vertical alignment, in-approach geometry, and in-flight plan. The parameters are combined to determine runway alignment scores for each runway. The runway alignment scor...