ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,702, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Honeywell International Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Methods and systems for propagating user inputs to different displays" was invented by Gang He (Morristown, N.J.), Thea Feyereisen (Hudson, Wis.), Rakshit R (Bangalore, India) and Zuowei He (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are provided for propagating a free-form user input across different displays. One method involves receiving a free-form user input on a navigational map display, assigning a geographic location to the free-form user input based on a position of the free-form user input on the navigational map display,...