US Patent Issued to THE BOEING on May 20 for "Systems and methods for a smart navigation tuning panel" (Washington, Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,779, issued on May 20, was assigned to THE BOEING COMPANY (Arlington, Va.).

"Systems and methods for a smart navigation tuning panel" was invented by Bradley D. Cornell (Moses Lake, Wash.), Jason Hammack (Seattle) and Katie Younkin (Medford, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A line-replaceable unit (LRU) for an aircraft includes an interface configured to couple to an aircraft data bus. The LRU further includes one or more processors coupled to the interface. The one or more processors are configured to monitor communications over the aircraft data bus between a pilot interface device and a second LRU. The LRU is distinct from the ...