ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,891, issued on May 13, was assigned to Thales Avionics Inc. (Irvine, Calif.).
"Ground-based controller for selectively curating content provided by in-flight entertainment systems" was invented by Jean-Yves Couleaud (Mission Viejo, Calif.), Tracy Decuir (Yorba Linda, Calif.) and Jerry Thomas (Mission Viejo, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A ground-based content controller for managing content provided by an in-flight entertainment ("IFE") system operating on an airplane can include a ground-based content processor and a non-transitory computer readable medium. The non-transitory computer readable medium can be communicatively c...