US Patent Issued to Foreflight on July 22 for "Flight information synchronization using ad hoc networking" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,365,463, issued on July 22, was assigned to Foreflight LLC (Houston).

"Flight information synchronization using ad hoc networking" was invented by Jason Miller (Austin, Texas), Krista Miller (Austin, Texas) and Sebastian Peleato (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for flight information synchronization using ad hoc networking involves enabling a broadcast of an update to a passenger device from a pilot device, determining an update frequency for the broadcast of the update from one or more network thresholds, and determining to broadcast the update when the broadcast is enabled and one or more broadcast thresholds are ...