US Patent Issued to Textron Innovations on June 23 for "Digital co-pilot" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,799, issued on June 23, was assigned to Textron Innovations Inc. (Providence, R.I.).

"Digital co-pilot" was invented by Francis X. Govers III (North Richland Hills, Texas) and Kevin Christensen (Plano, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for a digital co-pilot are provided. The method includes receiving a plurality of inputs from a vehicle operating systems, wherein the plurality of inputs comprise engine parameters, control system parameters, or electrical system parameters, identifying one or more first trends in the plurality of inputs, diagnosing one or more first potential conditions based on the first trend...