ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,341,857, issued on June 24, was assigned to Honeywell International Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Method and system to use computing device to obtain operator preferences and configurations used by avionics processing unit" was invented by Divya Swarup Giriyappa Srinivasan (Bangalore, India) and Thomas D. Judd (Phoenix).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for airline operation center (AOC) data communications are disclosed. The method comprises providing a computing device for use onboard an aircraft, with the computing device hosting at least one application configured to interact with at least one avionics processing unit onbo...