US Patent Issued to Cirrus Design on Feb. 10 for "Mobile device application-based aircraft data storage and communication system" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,170, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Cirrus Design Corp. (Duluth, Minn.).

"Mobile device application-based aircraft data storage and communication system" was invented by Austin Matthew Murch (Esko, Minn.), David Andrew Rathbun (Hermantown, Minn.) and Bradley T. Cyr (Duluth, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aircraft comprising a first power supply such as a battery, avionics including a plurality of sensors that provide aircraft parameter information, a transceiver and a gateway. The gateway includes a processing system and is coupled to the first power supply, avionics and transceiver. The gateway is configured to operate ...