US Patent Issued to General Electric on Dec. 9 for "Flight recorder system and method for synchronizing ADC sampling rates" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,492,009, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).

"Flight recorder system and method for synchronizing ADC sampling rates" was invented by Brian Lynn Douthitt (Holland, Mich.) and Andrew David Vogeli (Byron Center, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A flight recorder system of an aircraft includes a cockpit voice and flight data recorder communicatively coupled, via a data communication network, to a first flight recorder module (FRM). The first FRM includes a first sensor configured to generate a first analog signal, a first controller, and a first analog to digital converter (ADC) configured to sample t...