US Patent Issued to Jeppesen ForeFlight on July 28 for "Automated aeronautical data distribution" (German, Spanish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,793, issued on July 28, was assigned to Jeppesen ForeFlight Inc. (Englewood, Colo.).

"Automated aeronautical data distribution" was invented by Milind Vasudeo Naik (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) and Pablo Costas Alvarez (Majadahonda, Spain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method automatically distributes aeronautical information. A source dataset for the aeronautical information is identified. The source dataset is in a common data format and has changes. A destination dataset for the aeronautical information is identified. The destination dataset is in the common data format. An overlap is determined between the source dataset and the...