ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,356, issued on April 7, was assigned to Honeywell International Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.).
"Smart scratchpad datalink chicklets" was invented by Steven Smith (Surprise, Ariz.), Christopher Heine (Mesa, Ariz.) and Randy Odish (Tempe, Ariz.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One or more datalink labels are displayed on a shared panel of a user interface. The datalink labels are generated in response to receiving a datalink message from at least one ground station. Upon receiving a selection of the datalink label, one or more sub-panels that include information or a representation of the datalink message are displayed on the user interface. In...