US Patent Issued to General Electric on Dec. 16 for "Aircraft monitoring system" (American, Mexican Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,497,194, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).

"Aircraft monitoring system" was invented by David J. Steffler (Caledonia, Mich.), Jonathan P. VanStensel (Grand Rapids, Mich.), David Straight (Caledonia, Mich.), Brian R. Johnson (Ada, Mich.), Juan Carlos Arenas Mena (El Marques, Mexico) and Laura Rodriguez (Miami).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aircraft monitoring system includes an avionics communication bus structure, at least one network member user device that transmits a broadcast message onto the avionics communication bus structure, and at least one non-member user device that receives the broa...