US Patent Issued to General Electric on March 31 for "Flight recorder system and method" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,883, issued on March 31, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).

"Flight recorder system and method" was invented by Brian Lynn Douthitt (Holland, Mich.), Theodore William Gerken (Grand Rapids, Mich.) and Samuel Nyall Stearley (Kentwood, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A CVFDR system of an aircraft includes a cockpit voice and flight data recorder (CVFDR) communicatively coupled, via a data communication network, to a set of flight recorder modules. The CVFDR receives a first voltage from a remote first power source. In the event of an interruption of the first voltage, the CVFDR receives a second voltage from a ...