ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,707, issued on June 24, was assigned to THALES (Courbevoie, France).
"Method for validating a terrain database" was invented by Vincent Savarit (Toulouse, France), Stephane Fleury (Toulouse, France) and Betty Bastareaud (Toulouse, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for validating a terrain database includes a step of simulating flights based on trajectory data for an aircraft, the flight simulations being speeded up, a step of determining terrain collision risks by means of a system for signalling terrain collision risks based on the speeded-up flight simulations, a step of determining the origins of terrain collision ris...