US Patent Issued to GE Aviation Systems on June 2 for "Flight recorder system and method" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,643,674, issued on June 2, was assigned to GE Aviation Systems LLC (Grand Rapids, Mich.).

"Flight recorder system and method" was invented by Brian L. Douthitt (Holland, Mich.) and Christopher Robert Eckert (East Grand Rapids, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A flight recorder system of an aircraft includes a resource controller module (RCM) communicatively coupled, via a switch fabric, to a set of flight recorder system modules (FRM). Each FRM comprises a respective control module, a respective local memory, and a respective set of input and output (I/O) ports communicatively coupled to the switch fabric. The RCM is configured to det...