ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,448,924, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Aircraft hybrid duplex-triplex control architecture" was invented by Bradley C. Schafer (Ellington, Conn.) and Ramesh Rajagopalan (Glastonbury, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aircraft control architectures include a triplex sensor configured to output three signals. First and second channels are configured to receive respective signals of the three output signals, with each channel having a respective processor and are configured to output respective control signals. A remote interface device is configured to receive a third signal of the three output signa...