US Patent Issued to THALES on Aug. 12 for "Device and method for centralized management of an aircraft flight management system" (French Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,387,612, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to THALES (Courbevoie, France).

"Device and method for centralized management of an aircraft flight management system" was invented by Jean-Marc Lacoste (Merignac, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for centralized management of an aircraft flight management system is provided, of the type of human-machine interface called FMD (for Flight Management Display), and which includes a plurality of functional components associated with human-machine interfaces. In particular, the device comprises a component and its 'waypoint list' interface in order to display the list of waypoints of a fli...