US Patent Issued to Honeywell International on Feb. 17 for "System for vehicle operator workload assessment and annunciation" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,052, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Honeywell International Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"System for vehicle operator workload assessment and annunciation" was invented by Shuai Chen (Shanghai), Alan Bruce Hickman (Phoenix), Lili Ji (Shanghai) and Zhilian Hao (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system to assess the current, or future workload of a pilot and automatically providing annunciation when needed to the pilot, as well as to resources that support the pilot. The system may automatically, and without pilot involvement, assess the workload for the pilot based on incoming events and abnormal scenarios. The predicted incomi...