US Patent Issued to Viasat on July 22 for "Flight recorder for selectively transmitting flight data from an aircraft" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,369,225, issued on July 22, was assigned to Viasat Inc. (Carlsbad, Calif.).

"Flight recorder for selectively transmitting flight data from an aircraft" was invented by William F. Sullivan (Encinitas, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The described features generally relate to a flight data recorder system for adaptively transmitting flight data from an aircraft. In particular, an aircraft may collect flight data from a first set of aircraft sensors. This collected flight data may then be transmitted from the aircraft by a communication terminal of the aircraft. A flight data communication scheduler may manage the selective transmissi...