ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,792, issued on July 28, was assigned to Aerlogics LLC (Northlake, Texas).
"Sensor-fused flight event detection using aircraft telemetry and mobile device sensors" was invented by Mitchell Denning Daniels Jr. (Wilmington, N.C.) and Robert Arbuckle Handley III (Northlake, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device carried aboard or integrated therein to an aircraft collects time-stamped GNSS coordinates, ground speed, altitude, and inertial measurements. A processor identifies block-out, taxi, takeoff, wheels-off, wheels-on, landing rollout, and block-in by evaluating sensor signals against geo-boundaries and thresholds, and switche...