US Patent Issued to The Boeing on Aug. 12 for "System and method for detecting and avoiding conflicts along a current route of a vehicle" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,387,615, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"System and method for detecting and avoiding conflicts along a current route of a vehicle" was invented by Shilpa Jha (Somerville, Mass.), Douglas Lipinski (Somerville, Mass.), Joseph Chung (Cambridge, Mass.) and Jacob E. Kenin (Acton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for detecting and avoiding a conflict along a current route of a vehicle is described. In some implementations, the system accesses or determines trajectories of the vehicle and a plurality of nearby moving objects, the trajectories being determined forward in time. Next, t...