US Patent Issued to THE MITRE on Sept. 30 for "Flight management system operator" (Virginia Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,431,033, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to THE MITRE Corp. (McLean, Va.).

"Flight management system operator" was invented by Robin Kirkman (Centreville, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of performing a flight simulation is provided. The method includes retrieving a flight action, mapping the flight action to an instruction, the instruction being configured to bring about a desired state of a flight simulator, identifying a command based on the desired state of the flight simulator and a first state of the flight simulator, and determining if a second state of the flight simulator after executing the command matches the des...