ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,638,955, issued on May 26, was assigned to Honeywell International Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Systems and methods for providing mode awareness of a HUD display configuration" was invented by Steven Curtis Crouch (Mesa, Ariz.), Brendan James Fontes (Surprise, Ariz.), Sudarshan Parthasarathy (Bangalore, India) and Vanshikrishna Adhikarla (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are methods and systems for determining display modules that are compatible with a display of an avionics system. For instance, a method may include receiving, by one or more processors, a plurality of presets from a database, wherein each of the plur...