ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,243,538, issued on March 4, was assigned to GULFSTREAM AEROSPACE Corp. (Savannah, Ga.).
"Interactive aircraft cabin environment" was invented by Brian Cook (Savannah, Ga.) and Tongan Wang (Savannah, Ga.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The interactive aircraft cabin environment control system employs at least one microphone array disposed within the cabin to capture spoken utterances from a passenger and is configured to provide an estimation of passenger location within the cabin based on arrival time analysis of the spoken utterances. A data source onboard the aircraft provides flight context information. Such data sources include sensor...