US Patent Issued to Textron Innovations on Sept. 15 for "Data type separation for aircraft mission systems digital backbone" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,739,316, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Textron Innovations Inc. (Providence, R.I.).

"Data type separation for aircraft mission systems digital backbone" was invented by Milton Lie (Allen, Texas), Adam Menard (Aledo, Texas), Joseph McKnight (Fort Worth, Texas) and Andrew Crumrine (Dallas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment system includes a digital switching fabric system forming a digital backbone network, and one or more first system components including first computer program code that causes the respective first system component to perform communication of data with one or more second system components over a virtual l...