ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,804, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Honeywell International Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Vehicle systems and methods for nonsynchronous redundancy management" was invented by Philip Toews (Phoenix) and Raghu Shamasundar (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Vehicle systems and methods are provided for updating vehicle systems in response to an update event at one of the vehicle systems, such as, for example, an update at a flight management system (FMS) of an aircraft. One method involves the FMS obtaining event data from an external source indicative of an update event, updating flight data at the FMS to an updated state ...