US Patent Issued to SMARTSKY NETWORKS on Dec. 16 for "Dynamic test bench for aircraft system testing" (Virginia, Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,679, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to SMARTSKY NETWORKS LLC (Morrisville, N.C.).

"Dynamic test bench for aircraft system testing" was invented by Praveen Palreddy (Ashburn, Va.), Mohammed Elabd (Aldie, Va.), Richard Canning (Rockville, Md.) and David Claassen (Leesburg, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An air to ground (ATG) communication system testing platform may be configured to operably couple a base station to an aircraft base radio in a lab environment. The testing platform may include a position simulator and a channel simulator. The position simulator may be configured to generate simulated aircraft position information ...