ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,478, issued on June 10, was assigned to Honeywell International Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Integrated flight deck" was invented by Kirupakar Janakiraman (Madurai, India), Kalimulla Khan (Bangalore, India) and Ramkumar Rajendran (Madurai, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for an aircraft configured to: provide one or more of the sensed aircraft characteristics to a flight planning tool for processing by one or more features of the flight planning tool; receive a recommended flight setting from the flight planning tool based on the processing by the flight planning tool; compare a current flight setting as determined based on...