ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,586, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to AIRBUS OPERATIONS Ltd. (Bristol, Great Britain).
"Avionics unit" was invented by Hugo R. Oliveira (Bristol, Great Britain) and Victor Boeing Ribeiro (Bristol, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An avionics unit for an aircraft including a communications interface arranged to interface with one or more other avionics units. The communication interface is arranged to transmit a signal having a first state indicating a fault condition of the avionics unit to the one or more other avionics units if the first state persists for a predetermined time. A processor is arranged to modulate an...