US Patent Issued to Honeywell Aerospace US on Sept. 8 for "Can bus network protection in redundant fly-by-wire systems" (Czech Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,987, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Honeywell Aerospace US LLC (Phoenix).

"Can bus network protection in redundant fly-by-wire systems" was invented by Milan Bostik (Brno, Czech Republic) and Frantisek Horniak (Brno, Czech Republic).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for protecting a controller area network (CAN) aircraft bus from a flight control module failure has been developed. Multiple CAN bus systems serve multiple connected components located onboard an aircraft. Flight control modules located onboard the aircraft are connected to multiple the CAN bus systems. An electronic isolator/repeater that is located between eac...