ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,833, issued on July 15, was assigned to DASSAULT AVIATION (Paris).

"Secure transfer system for digital aircraft data, data producer system, data consumer system, and related transfer method" was invented by Serge Bruillot (Saint Cloud, France), Patrick Dignimont (Saint Cloud, France) and Jerome Cappelle (Saint Cloud, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A secure transfer system for digital aircraft data includes a data producer system configured to generate a data capsule at each data production and a data consumer system. The consumer system is configured to retrieve each capsule to extract an identifier, a refresh indicator, a fun...