US Patent Issued to Otto Aero on May 12 for "Flight assistant" (Nebraska Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,605, issued on May 12, was assigned to Otto Aero Co. (Omaha, Neb.).

"Flight assistant" was invented by Sean Patrick Suiter (Omaha, Neb.) and Richard Andrew Kruse (Omaha, Neb.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and apparatus for determining the best course of action at any particular point inflight. The system determines current aircraft configuration against an expected aircraft configuration to detect configuration errors, and then utilizes configuration errors and error trends to manage aircraft configuration and mission operation. The system may divert the aircraft to the best available landing sites or reconfigure the aircraf...