ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,131, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Aerlogics LLC (Northlake, Texas).

"Quantitative visual translation of aircraft radio communications" was invented by Mitchell Denning Daniels Jr. (Wilmington, N.C.) and Robert Arbuckle Handley III (Northlake, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides a method for systematically monitoring aircraft pilot and air traffic control (ATC) radio communications to detect predefined aviation-specific keywords indicative of operational conditions affecting flight safety or efficiency, such as turbulence, icing, or visibility constraints. Detected keywords and semantic equivalents from voi...