US Patent Issued to Rockwell Collins on Sept. 30 for "System and method for monitoring touch events in a cockpit display" (Iowa Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,022, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Rockwell Collins Inc. (Cedar Rapids, Iowa).

"System and method for monitoring touch events in a cockpit display" was invented by Clyde A Spidell (Cedar Rapids, Iowa) and Tracy J. Barnidge (Marion, Iowa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for monitoring touch events in a cockpit display includes one or more user monitoring devices including eye tracking sensors and body tracking sensors. The system includes a controller including a touch event algorithm configured to determine inadvertent touch events. The controller may receive eye gaze and body movement data of the user viewing the displ...