ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,134, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to GE Aviation Systems Ltd. (Cheltenham, Great Britain).
"System and method of adjusting a pilot workload" was invented by Stefan Alexander Schwindt (Cheltenham, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for adjusting an operator workload during a travel segment includes tracking inputs by an operator into an avionic system responsive to a request from a flight control computer during one or more flights of an aircraft, determining a rate at which the inputs by the operator are made, and determining an operator workload based on the rate. The operator workload can be adjusted ...