ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,492,008, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Textron Innovations Inc. (Providence, R.I.).
"Cockpit voice recorder decoder" was invented by Nathaniel Ryan James Lao (Dallas) and Jennifer Siviseth (Augusta, Kan.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for automatically decoding aircraft Cockpit Voice Recorder (CVR) encoded data includes loading a definitions class and a decoder class into a memory via a driver class, loading configuration files into the memory via the definitions class, receiving from an aircraft CVR one or more hex files that include the CVR encoded data into the memory, generating via the decoder class and the configuration...