US Patent Issued to Rockwell Collins on July 22 for "System and method to operate radio of aircraft to connect to radio towers according to command control communication plan" (Iowa Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,776, issued on July 22, was assigned to Rockwell Collins Inc. (Cedar Rapids, Iowa).

"System and method to operate radio of aircraft to connect to radio towers according to command control communication plan" was invented by Boe A. Svatek (Cedar Rapids, Iowa), Abhishek Dharmesh Rane (Marion, Iowa), Paul A. Lenhardt (Marion, Iowa) and Nicholas J. Liberko (Marion, Iowa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system may include a radio and a processor. The processor may be configured to: obtain information of a flight plan; obtain a command control (C2) communication plan; and output instructions to operate the radio to connect with at least on...