ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,657, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to THALES (Meudon, France).
"Flight management system for an aircraft" was invented by Frederic Bonamy (Toulouse, France), Baptiste Idiart (Toulouse, France), Baptiste Lefevre (Toulouse, France), Francois Michel (Toulouse, France) and Olivier Soussiel (Toulouse, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A flight management system for an aircraft, includes a critical first avionics module for trajectory calculation, i.e. a module the integrity level and availability level of which are specified by regulatory standards in force, delivering as output a safe trajectory, based on a flight plan; a second modu...