ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,304,649, issued on May 20, was assigned to THALES CANADA INC. (Ottawa).

"Simplex flight control computer to be used in a flight control system" was invented by Patrick Cadotte (Quebec, Canada), Torsten Liesk (Quebec, Canada) and Frederick Clement (Quebec, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A simplex Flight Control Computer (FCC), usable in conjunction with a neighboring FCC, includes an input providing module for receiving sensor, system and neighboring FCC data; a processing unit for executing a command partition and a monitor partition, the processing unit receives the sensor, system data and neighboring FCC data; the monitor partit...