ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,785,790, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Honeywell Aerospace US LLC (Phoenix).

"EFB or AID communication media for datalink message transmission and reception" was invented by Divya Swarup Giriyappa Srinivasan (Bangalore, India) and Thomas D. Judd (Phoenix).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments are directed to utilizing non-traditional communication links to communicate datalink messages between a vehicle and at least one ground station. While a communications management system on the vehicle generally transmits and receives datalink messages, an electronic flight bag includes one or more communication links that are used to receive...