ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,347,328, issued on July 1, was assigned to Honeywell International Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Systems and methods for self-contained mission management" was invented by Kalimulla Khan (Bangalore, India), Kirupakar Janakiraman (Madurai, India) and Raghu Shamasundar (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes avionics line-replaceable units (LRUs); a mission manager including application programming interfaces (API); a processing device; and a memory storing one or more machine readable instructions causing the system to: communicatively couple the mission manager to external avionics services via a data gateway to rece...