ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,643, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to GULFSTREAM AEROSPACE Corp. (Savannah, Ga.).

"System and methodology for displaying an adaptive virtual sky within an aircraft cabin" was invented by Matthew Wallace (Savannah, Ga.), Amanda Johns (Savannah, Ga.) and Kyle Collett (Savannah, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aircraft is disclosed here. An embodiment of the aircraft includes a cabin having a cabin ceiling, a display element arranged on the cabin ceiling and oriented to present visual content to an occupant of the cabin, a source of aircraft status data that provides aircraft status data corresponding to current operating statu...