ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,371,184, issued on July 29, was assigned to Honeywell International Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Systems and methods for presenting a qualitative risk assessment for an aircraft to perform a flight procedure" was invented by Thea Feyereisen (Minneapolis), Ratan Khatwa (Redmond, Wash.) and Gang He (Morris Plains, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for presenting a qualitative risk assessment for an aircraft to perform a flight procedure. Methods include determining: a pilot support value that is representative of a human-machine interface (HMI) onboard the aircraft; a crew factors value representative of a number of pilot...