ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,455, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Thales Avionics Inc. (Irvine, Calif.).
"Ground-based content curation platform distributing geographically-relevant content to aircraft inflight entertainment systems" was invented by Margaret Stuart (Mission Viejo, Calif.), Maneesha Sumien (Mission Viejo, Calif.) and Peter Hong (Irvine, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A ground-based content curation platform identifies geographically-relevant content having metadata indicating a geographic relevance area which satisfies a relevance rule relative to the present location of the aircraft. The platform distributes the geographically-relevant...