Patents Assigned to UFA, Inc.
  • Direct entry air traffic control system for accident analysis and training
    Patent number: 5200901
    Abstract: A site-selectable air traffic control system and method for interacting with a user, the system and method generating a representation of at least one moving aircraft having an initial position and heading with respect to a selected site for producing a dynamic simulation of an air traffic scenario to monitor air traffic in real time and provide expert instruction when necessary, and to analyze air traffic at the selected site. The site selected may consist of one of a plurality of stored sites or a modification of one of those sites. Controller commands issued by a user are entered for altering the air traffic scenario. The air traffic scenario may be based on actual flight patterns of aircraft within the air space corresponding to the selected site.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 1990
    Date of Patent: April 6, 1993
    Assignee: UFA, Inc.
    Inventors: Arthur Gerstenfeld, Charles Millet, Thomas D. Moody, Erich Ma
  • Air traffic control training system
    Patent number: 4979137
    Abstract: An air traffic control training system and method for interacting with a user, the system and method generating a representation of at least one moving aircraft having an initial position and heading for producing a dynamic simulation of an air traffic scenario. Controller commands issued by a user are entered for altering the air traffic scenario. Rules and procedures stored in a knowledge base are compared to the present state of the simulation of the air traffic scenario or to the controller command by an expert system for issuing a warning upon the immediate or foreseeable failure to observe any rule or procedure in the knowledge base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 1988
    Date of Patent: December 18, 1990
    Assignee: UFA Inc.
    Inventors: Arthur Gerstenfeld, Michael N. Gualtieri, Thomas D. Moody
  • Site-selectable air traffic control system
    Patent number: 4949267
    Abstract: A site-selectable air traffic control system and method for interacting with a user, the system and method generating a representation of at least one moving aircraft having an initial position and heading with respect to a selected site for producing a dynamic simulation of an air traffic scenario. The site selected may consist of one of a plurality of stored sites or a modification of one of those sites. Controller commands issued by a user are entered for altering the air traffic scenario. Rules and procedures stored in a general knowledge base and a site-specific knowledge base are compared to the present state of the simulation of the air traffic scenario or to the controller command by an expert system for issuing a warning upon the immediate or foreseeable failure to observe any rule or procedure in the knowledge bases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 1988
    Date of Patent: August 14, 1990
    Assignee: UFA, Inc.
    Inventors: Arthur Gerstenfeld, Michael N. Gualtieri, Thomas D. Moody