ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,435,981, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Scott International Procedures LLC (Livermore, Colo.).

"Portable flight navigation tool adapted to assist pilots in compliance with international flight procedures and navigation" was invented by Shawn Scott (Livermore, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A portable flight navigation tool has a tablet computer with GPS, and memory with an aviation database with international operating rules including transoceanic flight rules, a moving-map database with tracks, coastal airport identifiers and locations, and predefined reporting point locations for transoceanic operations. The navigation tool inc...