US Patent Issued to Otto Aero on March 25 for "System and apparatus for reducing the urgency of a flight condition" (Nebraska Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,769, issued on March 25, was assigned to Otto Aero Co. (Omaha, Neb.).

"System and apparatus for reducing the urgency of a flight condition" was invented by Sean Patrick Suiter (Omaha, Neb.) and Richard Andrew Kruse (Omaha, Neb.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An emergency detection and resolution system for alerting users of available options given a particular emergency (and set of flight conditions). The system may assist the pilot (crew) in resolving or reducing the urgency of an emergency or in executing a proposed solution to a given emergency, or may direct the aircraft autopilot in executing the suggested (and selected) soluti...