Honeywell International Assigned Patent for Airport Lighting Aid Simulation System

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 17 -- Honeywell International, Morristown, N.J., has been assigned a patent (8,060,262) developed by Roger W. Burgin, Scottsdale, Ariz., and Blake Wilson, Peoria, Ariz., for an "airport lighting aid simulation system."

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An airport lighting aid simulation system comprises a data storage unit configured to store lighting aid data relating to a plurality of airports. The lighting aid data indicates a type and a location of an airport lighting aid at a runway at each airport. The system also includes a display unit and a processing unit operatively connected to both the data storage device and the display unit. The processing unit is configured to receive an input signal indicative of a target runway, to retrieve a sub-set of the lighting aid data from the data storage unit, the sub-set being indicative of a target runway lighting aid, and to control the display unit to display a target runway description. The system enables a pilot to determine whether a visible runway is the target runway by comparing a view from an aircraft as the aircraft approaches the visible runway with the target runway description."

The patent application was filed on Oct. 30, 2009 (12/610,093). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=8,060,262&OS=8,060,262&RS=8,060,262

Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi.

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