ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,293,677, issued on May 6, was assigned to CAE USA INC. (Tampa, Fla.).

"Aircraft cockpit training simulator and associated method" was invented by Brian L. Collen (Arlington, Texas), Jimmie M. Davis Jr. (Arlington, Texas), Michael A. Gardner (Arlington, Texas), William L. Hunter Jr. (Arlington, Texas) and Christopher A. Johnson (Arlington, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aircraft cockpit training simulator includes a plurality of aircraft cockpit simulation panels and power over Ethernet (POE) cabling extending therebetween. Each panel includes a simulator user interface device, an input circuit or an output circuit, a POE interfa...