US Patent Issued to ROCKWELL COLLINS on July 14 for "Distributed flight management method and system" (Iowa, South Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,773, issued on July 14, was assigned to ROCKWELL COLLINS INC. (Cedar Rapids, Iowa).

"Distributed flight management method and system" was invented by Jesse A. Lane (Mount Pleasant, S.C.), Brian R. Wolford (Cedar Rapids, Iowa) and Joshua A. Slagle (Marion, Iowa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) includes a flight management system (FMS) that is in communication with other FMSs on other UAVs. The FMS includes a route manager that retrieves data from an avoidance source and determines an avoidance importance score for a route adjustment request based on the data. The route manager also determines a route comp...