US Patent Issued to THALES on May 27 for "Automatic selection of an aircraft flight plan in the approach phase" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,379, issued on May 27, was assigned to THALES (Courbevoie, France).

"Automatic selection of an aircraft flight plan in the approach phase" was invented by Jerome Sacle (Toulouse, France), Marion Chaillou (Toulouse, France), Christophe Caillaud (Toulouse, France), Fabien Chovin (Toulouse, France) and Michel Roger (Toulouse, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In the field of air navigation, a computer-implemented method includes loading an initial active flight plan for an aircraft comprising a first approach procedure to a runway up to a missed approach point ending between the missed approach point and a final point; loading a sec...