ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,347,326, issued on July 1, was assigned to THALES (Courbevoie, France).

"Electronic system and method for managing the flight of an aircraft, with insertion of section(s) with constraint(s) in a flight plan, related computer program" was invented by Guillaume Calas (Valence, France) and Raphael Ughetto (Valence, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This electronic system for managing the flight of an aircraft comprises: an acquisition module configured to acquire at least one flight plan section, from equipment external to the flight management system; an insertion module configured to insert each acquired section into a current flight p...