US Patent Issued to The MITRE on Sept. 8 for "Digital copilot" (Virginia, Georgia, Maryland, District Of Columbia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,494, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to The MITRE Corp. (McLean, Va.).

"Digital copilot" was invented by Steven L. Estes (Savannah, Ga.), John R. Helleberg (Centreville, Va.), Kevin M. Long (Ashburn, Va.), Matthew E. Pollack (Falls Church, Va.), Marco Quezada (Silver Spring, Md.) and Jeffrey Stein (Washington).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is directed to providing pilots with timely information to allow for better decision making and improved safety during the piloting of a flight. The systems and methods described herein can employ a collection of algorithms that can take disparate information, process it, and...