US Patent Issued to Rockwell Collins on May 6 for "Flight planning through data driven charting" (Iowa, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,293,674, issued on May 6, was assigned to Rockwell Collins Inc. (Cedar Rapids, Iowa).

"Flight planning through data driven charting" was invented by Collin D Ogden (Marion, Iowa), Ellen L. McGaughy (Cedar Rapids, Iowa) and Michael J. Krenz (Roscoe, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method are provided for selecting features from a digital chart, and entering corresponding flight plan amendments into a flight plan by direct transfer to an FMS. Based on the selection, the system may prompt the user for subsequent selections. Digital charts are generated in dynamically or in real-time according to a set of databases, includin...