US Patent Issued to TEXTRON INNOVATIONS on Sept. 23 for "Fault tolerant flight control architecture" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,422,866, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to TEXTRON INNOVATIONS INC. (Providence, R.I.).

"Fault tolerant flight control architecture" was invented by Russell Peters (Fort Worth, Texas), Eric Covington (Fort Worth, Texas), Aaron Hitchcock (Fort Worth, Texas) and John Robert Wittmark Jr. (Newark, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A flight control system, including a flight control computer (FCC) configured for providing a first and second flight function, and sending, to effectors of an aircraft, first command signals based on the first and second flight functions, and a second computer configured for providing one or more autonomy fu...