ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,211,388, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to THALES (Courbevoie, France).

"Analysis of aircraft trajectories" was invented by Dorian Martinez (Toulouse, France), Christophe Pierre (Toulouse, France), Jori Ferrus (Toulouse, France) and Philippe Francez (Toulouse, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices and computer-implemented methods for analyzing aircraft trajectories, the method includes the steps of receiving data associated with a plurality of aircraft trajectories; breaking the trajectories down into a plurality of vectors, a vector comprising one or more sequences of enumerators; aligning multiple vectorized trajectories by sh...