ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,776,220, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Skytrac Systems Ltd. (Canada).

"Flight management method and system using same" was invented by Bernard Agyekum (Ottawa), Jian Zhong Hu (Nepean, Canada), Alan Gillis (Calabogie, Canada), David Balcaen (Gatineau, Canada), Markus Hammer (Almonte, Canada) and Philip Wyatt (Manotick, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described are various embodiments of a flight management method and system using same. In one embodiment, a digital flight management system comprises: a digital processing environment comprising instructions to access: flight request data related to a flight plan; aircraft paramet...