US Patent Issued to Rockwell Collins on April 22 for "Hypercontextual touch-the-plane (TTP) cabin management graphical user interface (GUI)" (Iowa Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,650, issued on April 22, was assigned to Rockwell Collins Inc. (Cedar Rapids, Iowa).

"Hypercontextual touch-the-plane (TTP) cabin management graphical user interface (GUI)" was invented by Rojith P. Gunaratnage (Cedar Rapids, Iowa), Levi D. Van Oort (Clarence, Iowa), Maureen A. Veith (Marion, Iowa) and Christopher P. Gehrke (Cedar Rapids, Iowa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cabin management control device is disclosed. In embodiments, the cabin management control device includes a touchscreen (e.g., either a fixed panel or a mobile computing device) and processors. The computing device is in communication with aircraft-based network...