ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,641, issued on July 15, was assigned to Airbus Operations (S.A.S.) (Toulouse, France).

"Method and system for configuring functionalities of an aircraft cockpit" was invented by Sofyan Su (Toulouse, France), Vincent Souffrant (Toulouse, France) and Frederic Aspro (Toulouse, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for configuring functionalities of an aircraft cockpit. The configuration system includes at least one processing unit to acquire profiles, to determine at least one combination of functionalities corresponding to the acquired profiles, based on a mapping table, and to activate at least the determined combi...