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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 10, 2008
Filed:
Aug. 23, 2005
Odile H Clavier, Los Altos, CA (US);
David R Schleicher, San Jose, CA (US);
Sharon W Houck, Portola Valley, CA (US);
John a Sorensen, Cupertino, CA (US);
Paul C Davis, Chiloquin, OR (US);
Cornelius G Hunter, Cameron Park, CA (US);
Odile H Clavier, Los Altos, CA (US);
David R Schleicher, San Jose, CA (US);
Sharon W Houck, Portola Valley, CA (US);
John A Sorensen, Cupertino, CA (US);
Paul C Davis, Chiloquin, OR (US);
Cornelius G Hunter, Cameron Park, CA (US);
Sensis Corporation, East Syracuse, NY (US);
Abstract
A smart airport automation system gathers and reinterprets a wide variety of aircraft and airport related data and information around unattended or non-towered airports. Data is gathered from many different types of sources, and in otherwise incompatible data formats. The smart airport automation system then decodes, assembles, fuses, and broadcasts structured information, in real-time, to aircraft pilots. The fused information is also useful to remotely located air traffic controllers who monitor non-towered airport operations. The system includes a data fusion and distribution computer that imports aircraft position and velocity, weather, and airport specific data. The data inputs are used to compute safe takeoff and landing sequences, and other airport advisory information for participating aircraft.