US Patent Issued to INNOVATIVE SOLUTIONS & SUPPORT on Dec. 16 for "Systems and methods for implementing automated flight following options and upgrading legacy flight management systems" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,772, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to INNOVATIVE SOLUTIONS & SUPPORT INC. (Exton, Pa.).

"Systems and methods for implementing automated flight following options and upgrading legacy flight management systems" was invented by Shahram Askarpour (Media, Pa.) and Markus Knopf (Chester Springs, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure relates to improved techniques for upgrading legacy flight management systems (FMSs) installed in an aircraft. In certain embodiments, an integrated guidance system (IGS) can be installed in an aircraft having a legacy FMS to provide enhance flight functionalities, such as required navigation per...