US Patent Issued to Textron Innovations on Feb. 25 for "Aircraft lighting avoidance systems and methods" (Illinois Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,237,655, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to Textron Innovations Inc. (Providence, R.I.).

"Aircraft lighting avoidance systems and methods" was invented by Phalgun Madhusudan (Urbana, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one implementation of the present disclosure, a method is disclosed. The method includes: detecting, on or proximate to one or more surfaces of an aircraft, a presence of an electric-field above a predetermined threshold; and in response to the detection, activating one or more beam sources to generate an ionized column of charge away from the aircraft."

The patent was filed on Aug. 22, 2022, under Applicatio...