Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
701528000 | Aircraft preflight route search | 20 |
20120109523 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OPTIMIZED FLIGHT PLANNING - A computer-implemented system and method for the processing and optimization of flight plans is disclosed. Information regarding a plurality of previous flight plans is received over a digital network and is stored in at least a database. The database preferably includes aviation fuel price information, aircraft performance information, and aviation weather information as well. Upon receiving a request, a server generates at least an optimized portion of a flight plan. In one form, historical flight plan data of others is automatically used to aid in the determination of the optimized route offered to the user for review, with the resulting final flight plan being electronically filed with the FAA upon approval. In a further form, the user may arrange fuel transactions at intermediate destinations with the service provider receiving a fee in exchange for facilitating the transaction. | 05-03-2012 |
20130085672 | Flight Trajectory Prediction with Application of Environmental Conditions - Systems and methods for generating a predicted flight trajectory using a combination of aircraft state data, flight information, environmental information, historical data or derived flight information from aircraft messaging which can be used for the transmission of environmental data. The generated trajectory prediction is assigned a level of confidence based on fidelity, merit or accuracy. The level of predicted accuracy is based on the number of and sources of the specific information, time, distance or flight phase. The predicted trajectory includes pseudo-waypoints at flight transitions not readily available in the flight information and also includes the environmental conditions at all waypoint (including pseudo-waypoint) locations. | 04-04-2013 |
20130124089 | SPATIOTEMPORAL SURVIVABILITY DATA COMPRESSION USING OBJECTIVE ORIENTED CONSTRAINTS - Systems and methods are disclosed for determining an optimal flight path from a starting point to a destination point within an allotted time interval. The time interval is divided into a plurality of time periods. For each time period, a plausibility region is determined, representing an area reachable by an aircraft by an end of the time period, but from which the aircraft can reach the destination point within the remaining time. An expected region of influence is determined for at least one threat at each time period, and a constituent cost map is generated by assigning a cost to cells within the overlap of the region of influence and the plausibility region. The constituent cost maps are combined into a final cost map. The optimal path is determined as a lowest cost path from the starting point to the destination point, and displayed to a user. | 05-16-2013 |
20130184993 | PROCESS FOR GENERATING COMPUTER FLIGHT PLANS ON THE INTERNET - A process of providing an aviation navigation chart over a computer network includes receiving a request by a server computer from a client computer. The client computer is in communication with the server computer via the computer network. The request is received over the computer network. The request includes an indication of a departure point and a destination point selected by a user of the client computer. The process also includes generating, at the server computer, a composite travel navigation chart in response to the request. The composite travel navigation chart includes a travel chart image with the departure point and the destination point and a route line extending between the departure point and the destination point. Furthermore, the process includes delivering the composite travel navigation chart from the server computer to the client computer for display by the client computer. | 07-18-2013 |
20130226452 | WEATHER AVOIDANCE TOOL SYSTEM - This invention relates to a method of providing a simplified practice for dealing with aviation turbulence and other weather hazards that allows the end users to better communicate turbulence as a state of the atmosphere metric and the additional weather threats affecting the flight. The invention will provide an Atmospheric State Index (ASI) that will allow all the users to work with a standardized metric that describes the turbulence as the state of the atmosphere and a similar scale for other weather risks to the flight. This system will make the correlation between the forecast and aircraft reports for turbulence easier to interpret for the end users. This approach would concentrate on turbulence as one of the weather hazards with a more objective and easier to use metric. This invention would provide a transition for moving from a system based on turbulence PIREPS to a more objective data driven process in the future air traffic environment. This invention would provide an end solution for the future air traffic system commonly referred to as NextGen for both turbulence and other weather hazards. | 08-29-2013 |
20140032105 | METHOD FOR DISPLAYING A FLIGHT PLAN - A method for displaying a flight plan having at least one waypoint on a flight display of a flight deck of an aircraft having known flight constraints, including receiving a user input for a user-inputted waypoint and generating an alternative waypoint when the user-inputted waypoint is not suitable and displaying same. | 01-30-2014 |
20140032106 | FLIGHT PLANNING SYSTEM AND METHOD USING FOUR-DIMENSIONAL SEARCH - A system and method for flight planning determines an optimal route by setting an initial departure weight or range of such weights for an aircraft traveling from a departure airport to a destination airport, defining a network of nodes for potentially legal routes, labeling each node with a graph of fuel needed to reach that node either as a function of flight duration or as a function of flight duration and departure weight, selecting or discarding routes when conditions at a node of that route are favorable or violated, selecting a preferred route, departure weight and duration for the desired payload and minimizing fuel for the desired route and payload. | 01-30-2014 |
20140032107 | Unknown - A method for processing a flight plan, implemented in a flight management system, consisting of at least one segment, comprises a step of determining the positions of the start point and of the end point of each of said segments constituting said flight plan by searching for at least two characteristic points of said segment, said characteristic points being explicit, fixed and non-floating, said positions being respectively characterized by a latitude, a longitude and an altitude. | 01-30-2014 |
20140222337 | Route Modeler for Improving Desired Environmental and Economic Flight Characteristics - A method and apparatus for processing routes is disclosed. An area of interest associated with a number of routes for a number of aircraft and an identification of a number of weightings for a number of characteristics for the number of routes are identified. The number of characteristics includes at least one of a number of environmental characteristics or a number of economic characteristics. A number of new routes are generated based on information about the number of routes associated with the area of interest. Values are identified for characteristics in the number of characteristics for each new route in the number of new routes and for each route in the number of routes based on the information. A performance value is identified for the each new route and for the each route based on the values and the number of weightings for the number of characteristics. | 08-07-2014 |
20140336932 | PROVIDING A DESCRIPTION OF AIRCRAFT INTENT - The present invention provides a computer-implemented method of generating an aircraft intent description expressed in a formal language that provides an unambiguous four-dimensional description of an aircraft's intended motion and configuration during a period of flight. A flight intent description is parsed to provide instances of flight intent that span a flight segment, the flight segments together spanning the period of flight. The parsed flight intent is enriched with objectives and constraints according to user preferences, operational context and aircraft performance. The resulting enriched flight intent is converted into a parametric aircraft intent description by ensuring that each flight segment closes all associated degrees of freedom of motion and of configuration of the aircraft. At least some instances of aircraft intent contain a parameter range, and the method further comprises optimising the parametric aircraft intent by determining an optimal value for the parameter of each parameter range. | 11-13-2014 |
20150339930 | DYNAMIC AIRCRAFT THREAT CONTROLLER MANAGER APPARATUSES, METHODS AND SYSTEMS - The DYNAMIC AIRCRAFT THREAT CONTROLLER MANAGER APPARATUSES, METHODS AND SYSTEMS (“DATCM”) transforms flight profile information, terrain, weather/atmospheric data and flight parameter data via DATCM components into comprehensive hazard avoidance optimized flight plans. Comprehensive hazard avoidance includes synergistic comprehensive turbulence and airfoil-specific icing data. In one implementation, the DATCM comprises a processor and a memory disposed in communication with the processor and storing processor-issuable instructions to receive anticipated flight plan parameter data, obtain weather data based on the flight plan parameter data, obtain atmospheric data based on the flight plan parameter data, and determine a plurality of four-dimensional grid points based on the flight plan parameter data. The DATCM may then determine comprehensive hazards mappings. With (near) real-time comprehensive hazard information and/or predictive turbulence/icing forecast specific to airfoil type and/or profile parameters, the DATCM may allow aircraft to avoid areas where comprehensive hazard is greater than a predetermined threshold and/or avoid areas where turbulence/icing may occur. | 11-26-2015 |
20150339932 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS TO GENERATE THE ATC CENTER NAMES LIST BASED ON AT LEAST ONE FLIGHT PLAN - A method to provide access to air traffic control centers to a crew member for context management (CM) logon is provided. The method includes accessing a flight plan for an aircraft at a processor; accessing a listing of air traffic control centers; generating a subset of the air traffic control centers at the processor; and displaying the subset of the air traffic control centers as at least a part of a prioritized listing of the air traffic control centers on a display for the crew member. The generating is based on at least one of: an ATC-center authority coverage area overlapping a flight path associated with the flight plan; and a pre-selected distance from the flight path. | 11-26-2015 |
20150356874 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DETERMINING THE OPTIMAL TURN DIRECTION OF AN AIRCRAFT - A method determines the optimal turn direction of an aircraft among two directions, right and left, following a lateral trajectory to join an arrival straight charted by an angle of arrival, based on a departure point and angle of departure defining a departure straight oriented along movement of the aircraft, the direction defined by a respectively positive or negative optimal turn sign, comprising: determining a conventional departure sign of the departure point; determining a centred value of an angle of change of course equal to the difference between the angle of arrival and angle of departure referred back between −180° and +180°, the centred value exhibiting a logical sign corresponding to the centred value sign of the angle of change of course; determining the sign of the optimal turn based on comparison between the departure sign and the logical sign, the sign of the optimal turn defining optimal turn direction. | 12-10-2015 |
20150371543 | SAFE FLIGHT-PATH SEARCH ENGINE SYSTEM AND METHOD - Disclosed are a method and a system of a safe flight-path search engine, according to one embodiment. In one embodiment, a method of a safe-flight server includes generating a safe-flying route of an aerial vehicle based on a position of a set of obstacles in a neighborhood area, creating a flight-path map comprising a set of flight paths of the aerial vehicle in the neighborhood area based on the generation of the safe-flying route, and publishing the flight-path map over an Internet protocol based network (such that the flight-path map is sharable with a plurality of searching users of a flight-path search engine that generates at least one flight path option between a starting location and an ending location of the aerial vehicle). The set of obstacles includes any of a tree, a utility pole, a street light, a building, a telephone line, and a utility line. | 12-24-2015 |
20160111007 | Database System To Organize Selectable Items For Users Related to Route Planning - The present disclosure relates to an electronic system for providing access to a useable, tailored database of selectable items for a user, e.g., user selectable routes entered by pilot users to utilize for flight planning and aircraft route guidance, and other related information from a remote processing center to a local unit over wireless, wire line, or telecommunications network or combination thereof. The disclosure more particularly relates, for example, to an electronic system including one or more remote processing centers and a plurality of local units, e.g., a desktop computer, laptop, tablet, cellular device, or mobile telephone unit, for providing to a pilot's local unit information of other pilot users from one or more databases, in particular, a pilot user's route with FAA identifiers (such as airports, VORs, NDBs, waypoints, reporting points, airways, etc.), waypoints, departure airport, destination airport, hazards, FAA VFR sectional and/or IFR airway map for guidance, pilot comments, and other information which has been calculated and/or stored at one or more remote processing centers in response to a query or selection request received from a local unit operated by an pilot user, for example. | 04-21-2016 |
20160125740 | UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLE IDENTITY AND CAPABILITY VERIFICATION - A device receives a request for a flight path for a UAV from a first location to a second location, credentials for the UAV, and component information for the UAV. The device determines, based on the credentials, whether the UAV is authenticated for utilizing the device and a network, and determines whether the UAV is capable of flight based on the component information and maintenance information. The device calculates, the flight path based on capability information for the UAV and/or other information, and determines whether the UAV is capable of traversing the flight path based on the capability information and/or the other information. The device generates flight path instructions for the flight path, and provides the flight path instructions to the UAV to permit the UAV to travel from the first location to the second location via the flight path. | 05-05-2016 |
20160125741 | COMPREHENSIVE FLIGHT PLANNING TOOL - A system for providing a flight planning tool is disclosed. The system may include at least one memory device for storing flight information and one or more hardware processors. The one or more hardware processors may be configured to provide an Application Program Interface (API) for facilitating communication between the system and at least one of a client device and one or more third-party devices, receive, via the API, a request including first information related to a flight, collect, via the API and based on the first information, second information from one or more third-party devices, generate flight trip data based on the first and second information, wherein the flight trip data includes information and graphics associated with the flight, and provide, via the API, one or more user interfaces to the client device for communicating the flight trip data. | 05-05-2016 |
20160125742 | COMPREHENSIVE FLIGHT PLANNING TOOL FOR A MOBILE DEVICE - a mobile application is disclosed for providing a flight planning tool on a client device. The mobile application may include a data input module configured to receive, via interface hardware on the client device, a selection of one of a plurality of selectable tools. The mobile application may further include a graphics module configured to display, via the interface hardware, a user interface associated with the selection. The mobile application may further include a flight planning communication module configured transmit a request for information associated with the selection, via an API, to a flight planning system, and receive, from the flight planning system via the API, responsive information that fulfills the request, wherein the responsive information was generated by the flight planning system based on information from a third-party device. | 05-05-2016 |
20160125743 | INTERACTIVE AND CUSTOMIZABLE FLIGHT PLANNING TOOL - A flight planning system is disclosed for providing an interactive and customizable flight planning tool. The flight planning system may include a memory device for storing flight information and one or more hardware processors. The processors may receive, from a client device associated with the flight planning system, a first flight information request and provide, in response to the first flight information request, an interactive user interface having a graphical representation of a flight plan that includes at least a flight route. The processors may provide a plurality of selectable overlays that modify the appearance of the graphical representation and display additional information related to the flight information. The processors may receive a second request related to the flight information and provide a modified user interface comprising at least a feature related to the second request and the flight information. | 05-05-2016 |
20170236427 | FLIGHT PATH CALCULATING AND SEARCHING METHOD OF A UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLE WITH REGENERATIVE FUEL CELLS AND SOLAR CELLS FOR HIGH ALTITUDE LONG ENDURANCE, AND A SEARCHING APPARATUS THEREOF | 08-17-2017 |