US Patent Issued to The MITRE on Sept. 30 for "Systems and methods for bulk aircraft data simulator and comparison tool" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,431,026, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to The MITRE Corp. (McLean, Va.).

"Systems and methods for bulk aircraft data simulator and comparison tool" was invented by David E. Baker Jr. (Westford, Mass.) and John A. Maurer (Burlington, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for simulating translated aircraft terminal procedures and comparing them to detect for errors in the translation of the terminal procedures. In one or more examples, one or more regulatory agency's routes and procedures for a given airspace are translated into one or more instructions that can be read by a flight computer that is configured to assi...