US Patent Issued to Rockwell Collins on May 20 for "Speed schedule tracking" (Iowa Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,909, issued on May 20, was assigned to Rockwell Collins Inc. (Cedar Rapids, Iowa).

"Speed schedule tracking" was invented by Collin D Ogden (Marion, Iowa), Jesse J Bliss (Cedar Rapids, Iowa) and David M Eckert (Swisher, Iowa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method are provided for continuously monitoring manual flight inputs and updating a flight management system with those manual inputs. The flight management system recalculates and provides predictions based on the manual inputs. The flight management system may continuously monitor certain thresholds. The flight management system utilizes the crew entered speed schedul...