ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,738,170, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Honeywell Aerospace US LLC (Phoenix).

"System and methods for flight plan management" was invented by Raghu Shamasundar (Bangalore, India), Marc-Antoine Trupheme (Toulouse, France) and Wen Hua Liu (Phoenix).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for management of an active flight plan during operation of an aircraft. The systems include a flight management system, a communications system configured to receive flight mission data from external sources, a display device, and a controller. The controller is configured to, by a processor: receive the flight mission data th...