ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,431,028, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to THE BOEING COMPANY (Arlington, Va.).

"Determining safe taxi exits on a runway" was invented by Akshay Arun Sankeshwari (Karnataka, India), Ajaya Srikanta Bharadwaja (Karnataka, India) and Umesh Kallappa Hosamani (Karnataka, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing system on an aircraft that is configured to perform operations including receiving historical data. The operations also include training a model using the historical data to produce a trained model. The operations also include receiving current pre-landing data for a current aircraft that is to land on a runway. The operatio...