US Patent Issued to Rockwell Collins on May 6 for "System and method for tracking and verification of questionable control inputs by incapacitated operators" (Oregon, Iowa Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,291,224, issued on May 6, was assigned to Rockwell Collins Inc. (Cedar Rapids, Iowa).

"System and method for tracking and verification of questionable control inputs by incapacitated operators" was invented by Weston J. Lahr (Sherwood, Ore.) and Cheyenne B. Matthews (Marion, Iowa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aircraft-based system for tracking and verifying control inputs from potentially incapacitated pilot stores to memory expected control input sets, e.g., control procedures for controlling an aircraft through segments of a flight plan. When pilot monitors indicate a state of potential incapacitation of a pilot (e.g., fatigue, unr...