Patents by Inventor Andrew Douglas Gent

Andrew Douglas Gent has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Method and system for controlling interval management of an aircraft
    Patent number: 11735055
    Abstract: A machine-readable media including executable instructions, when executed by one or more processors of a flight management system in a following aircraft. The machine-readable media configured to provide instructions to a flight management system of a following aircraft operating according to a following aircraft planned path, in reference to a target aircraft operating according to a target aircraft planned path, receive information regarding the target aircraft, set a required time of arrival at an achieve-by-point, and engage a required time of arrival function to enable the following aircraft to reach the achieve-by-point by the required time of arrival.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: GE Aviation Systems LLC
    Inventors: Terry Lee Williams, Andrew Douglas Gent, Joachim Karl Ulf Hochwarth
  • METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONTROLLING INTERVAL MANAGEMENT OF AN AIRCRAFT
    Publication number: 20220139231
    Abstract: A machine-readable media including executable instructions, when executed by one or more processors of a flight management system in a following aircraft. The machine-readable media configured to provide instructions to a flight management system of a following aircraft operating according to a following aircraft planned path, in reference to a target aircraft operating according to a target aircraft planned path, receive information regarding the target aircraft, set a required time of arrival at an achieve-by-point, and engage a required time of arrival function to enable the following aircraft to reach the achieve-by-point by the required time of arrival.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2022
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Inventors: Terry Lee Williams, Andrew Douglas Gent, Joachim Karl Ulf Hochwarth
  • Method and system for controlling interval management of an aircraft
    Patent number: 11238744
    Abstract: An aircraft and method for controlling a following aircraft in reference to a target aircraft including receiving, in a flight management system of the following aircraft, information related to the target aircraft, setting a required time of arrival at an achieve-by-point abeam of the target aircraft target reference point, and after the achieve-by-point is reached, flying the following aircraft to maintain a fixed separation until a defined termination point has been reached.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: GE Aviation Systems LLC
    Inventors: Terry Lee Williams, Andrew Douglas Gent, Joachim Karl Ulf Hochwarth
  • METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONTROLLING INTERVAL MANAGEMENT OF AN AIRCRAFT
    Publication number: 20200410871
    Abstract: An aircraft and method for controlling a following aircraft in reference to a target aircraft including receiving, in a flight management system of the following aircraft, information related to the target aircraft, setting a required time of arrival at an achieve-by-point abeam of the target aircraft target reference point, and after the achieve-by-point is reached, flying the following aircraft to maintain a fixed separation until a defined termination point has been reached.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2019
    Publication date: December 31, 2020
    Inventors: Terry Lee Williams, Andrew Douglas Gent, Joachim Karl Ulf Hochwarth