US Patent Issued to Rockwell Collins on May 6 for "Flight plan rules based conformity check" (Illinois, Iowa Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,293,671, issued on May 6, was assigned to Rockwell Collins Inc. (Cedar Rapids, Iowa).

"Flight plan rules based conformity check" was invented by Michael J. Krenz (Roscoe, Ill.) and Eric N. Anderson (Marion, Iowa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Whenever an avionics computer system receives a flight plan, the avionics computer system performs rules-based conformity checks with respect to a predefine set of rules/thresholds. The rules may be general aviation best practices (no rate of elevation change beyond some threshold, no single change in direction beyond some threshold, etc.) or specific to the aircraft (no violation of an operational ...