ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,304,653, issued on May 20, was assigned to THE BOEING COMPANY (Arlington, Va.).
"Aircraft touch-and-go detection" was invented by Andrea Sanzone (Frankfurt, Germany), Rahul Ashok (Singapore) and Rowena Loh (Singapore).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes receiving, at one or more processors, airport runway geospatial data indicating a geospatial area associated with an airport runway and an altitude associated with the airport runway. The method also includes receiving aircraft location data associated with an aircraft. The aircraft location data indicates a position of the aircraft at different times and an altitude of the ai...