ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,237, issued on March 18, was assigned to THALES (Courbevoie, France).

"Electronic control device for an avionics system for implementing a critical avionics function, method and computer program therefor" was invented by Florence De Grancey (Toulouse, France) and Sebastien Boussiron (Merignac, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic control device of an avionics system for implementation of a critical avionics function, comprising: a module for receiving a voice instruction signal; a speech recognition module configured to transform the voice signal into a textual transcript; a processing module configured to associate t...