ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,770,520, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Honeywell Aerospace US LLC (Phoenix).
"Displaying controller-pilot data link communication (CPDLC) messages in a threaded format" was invented by Randy Odish (Tempe, Ariz.), Steven Smith (Surprise, Ariz.) and Christopher Heine (Mesa, Ariz.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for displaying CPDLC messages on a user interface is provided. The method includes receiving a CPDLC message for display on the user interface; determining whether the CPDLC message has a message reference number (MRN); if the CPDLC message does not have an MRN, displaying the CPDLC message in a first column in a panel ...