ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,617,547, issued on May 5, was assigned to NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS Corp. (Falls Church, Va.).

"Offboard graphics rendering gateway via avionics full duplex ethernet for a cockpit display system" was invented by Manuel E. Suarez (Palm Bay, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cockpit display system for an aircraft including an off-board graphics rendering gateway system providing additional cockpit display and other functionality. The cockpit display system includes a cockpit display subsystem having a display, a subsystem processor and integrated modular avionics (IMA) with user applications and cockpit display software. The cockpit displ...