ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,406,587, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Otto Aero Co. (Omaha, Neb.).
"Aircraft flight operations datalink" 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: "Aircraft flight operations datalink for preparing an aircraft for flight, by a particular pilot (crew) for a particular flight plan via a portable computing device. The aircraft flight operations datalink includes a wireless data link; computer processor; data bus; an association with a flight sensor for collecting aircraft position, weather, traffic, terrain, aircraft systems status, aircraft flight envelope pa...