US Patent Issued to Rockwell Collins on May 20 for "Voice recognition of situational awareness" (Iowa, Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,386, issued on May 20, was assigned to Rockwell Collins Inc. (Cedar Rapids, Iowa).

"Voice recognition of situational awareness" was invented by Ross D. Anderson (Lakeville, Minn.), Subhashish Chakravarty (Marion, Iowa) and Matthew T. Higgins (Marion, Iowa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pilot, commander, or user within an aircraft may ask a query via voice. The query may be converted into text and used to search a knowledge graph. The result from the query may be provided to the user such that the user may obtain improved situational awareness during a mission or otherwise while flying. A line-replaceable unit of the aircraft may ex...