ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,846, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to THALES (Courbevoie, France).

"Open world communication device for communicating with an avionics system, associated communication system and communication method" was invented by Pierre Bayle (Toulouse, France), Olivier Balard (Toulouse, France), Aurelie Garcia (Toulouse, France), Andre Cleroux (Toulouse, France) and Clara Lopez (Toulouse, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is an open world communication device with an aircraft avionics system including an application component. The device further includes an interfacing component with a communication module able to intercept each re...