US Patent Issued to University of South Florida on April 29 for "System and method for the prediction of runway configuration and airport acceptance rate (AAR) for multi-airport system" (Florida, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,149, issued on April 29, was assigned to University of South Florida (Tampa, Fla.).

"System and method for the prediction of runway configuration and airport acceptance rate (AAR) for multi-airport system" was invented by Yu Zhang (Tampa, Fla.) and Yuan Wang (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Numerical weather prediction data during a time period of interest for a multi-airport system is used to generate a three-dimensional (3-D) tensor data for the time period of interest. The 3-D tensor data is then used to predict hourly runway configurations for each of a plurality of airports of the multi-airport system during the t...