US Patent Issued to Rockwell Collins on March 31 for "System and method for optimized arrival procedure selection through FMS" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,153, issued on March 31, was assigned to Rockwell Collins Inc. (Cedar Rapids, Iowa).

"System and method for optimized arrival procedure selection through FMS" was invented by Sujay Charala (Hyderabad, India), Murali Mohan Godavarthi (Hyderabad, India) and Sambasivarao Vallepu (Narasarao Pet, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A flight management system executes a method for arrival procedure display logic to reduce the overhead of pilots and air traffic controller by displaying a list of available arrival procedures sorted in a priority order based on headwind, estimated fuel on board, and estimated time of arrival. The pilot can ...