US Patent Issued to Rockwell Collins on Nov. 3 for "Critical symbol monitoring for color displays" (Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,784,304, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Rockwell Collins Inc. (Cedar Rapids, Iowa).

"Critical symbol monitoring for color displays" was invented by Alexander D. Reid (Tualatin, Ore.) and Nixon G. Lange (Tigard, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A head-up display system utilizes various color channels for critical symbol monitoring. The display application identifies an unused color in the display and renders markers for locations of critical symbols in the unused color. A separate processor executing monitoring application determines if the markers are located where the critical symbols are expected to be. The display system and moni...