ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,387,611, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"System and method for platform agonistic flight management data access" was invented by Subhransu Sahoo (Bangalore, India), Kalimulla Khan (Bangalore, India), Raghu Shamasundar (Bangalore, India), Kirupakar J (Madurai, India) and Robert Son (Phoenix).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for providing platform agnostic flight management data access for a flight management system (FMS) of an aircraft have been developed. First, a configuration file is loaded to a configuration database. The configuration file is for a data format of an...