ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,930, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Thales Avionics Inc. (Irvine, Calif.).
"In-flight entertainment systems with Bluetooth controller for mitigating Bluetooth transmitter interference" was invented by Jueren Ma (Placentia, Calif.), Raghunath Gunti (Irvine, Calif.) and Shivam Patel (Anaheim, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An in-flight entertainment system includes a centralized Bluetooth radio manager that is communicatively connected to Bluetooth radios located with seat video display units (SVDU) at passenger seats within an aircraft cabin. The centralized Bluetooth radio manager includes a network interface that communic...