ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,837, issued on July 15, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Collision avoidance system and method" was invented by Martin Kearney-Fischer (Boston) and Robert A. Vivona (Arlington, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example implementations are directed to a method and system for collision avoidance for an aircraft traversing a flight path. The method and system described herein provides an architecture to address the full gamut of complexity that arises when dealing with possible conflicts during aircraft flight. The collision avoidance method and system disclosed herein first receives multiple streams of potential con...