Patents by Inventor Benjamin Ivan Coutts

Benjamin Ivan Coutts 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).

  • Patent number: 11763685
    Abstract: A system and method for compiling and converting Aeronautical Radio Incorporated (ARINC) 424 or Digital Aeronautical Flight Information File (DAFIF) files into a binary database. The system and method include a controller module for receiving, extracting, converting, performing a set of quality checks, and directing the output or communication of the binary database to a remote server. The remote server can include a controller module that can verify validity of the communicated binary database and create aircraft loadable media for a flight management system navigational database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: GE Aviation Systems LLC
    Inventors: Jeffrey M. Plantinga, Ralph Demmon Boozer, Benjamin Ivan Coutts
  • Publication number: 20220398930
    Abstract: A method to validate a flight plan for an aircraft includes receiving aviation data, determining a flight plan based on the aviation data; determining a set of flight parameters for the flight plan, receiving terrain data, and performing a safety validation of the flight plan, wherein the safety validation comprises: comparing the set of flight parameters with the terrain data; and determining, based on the comparison, whether the flight plan satisfies predetermined flight criteria, and in the event of a determination that the flight plan does not satisfy the predetermined flight criteria, displaying a first notification indicative of the determination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2021
    Publication date: December 15, 2022
    Inventors: Jeffrey M. Plantinga, Ralph Demmon Boozer, Benjamin Ivan Coutts
  • Patent number: 11334235
    Abstract: A system and method for compiling and converting Aeronautical Radio Incorporated (ARINC) 424 or Digital Aeronautical Flight Information File (DAFIF) files into a binary database. The system and method include a controller module for displaying a comparison interface using a data structure comprising a plurality of nodes and a data architecture for supporting integration of multiple disparate navigation databases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: GE Aviation Systems LLC
    Inventors: Jeffrey M. Plantinga, Andrew Jay Foster, Benjamin Ivan Coutts
  • Publication number: 20210272465
    Abstract: A system and method for compiling and converting Aeronautical Radio Incorporated (ARINC) 424 or Digital Aeronautical Flight Information File (DAFIF) files into a binary database. The system and method include a controller module for receiving, extracting, converting, performing a set of quality checks, and directing the output or communication of the binary database to a remote server. The remote server can include a controller module that can verify validity of the communicated binary database and create aircraft loadable media for a flight management system navigational database.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2020
    Publication date: September 2, 2021
    Inventors: Jeffrey M. Plantinga, Andrew Jay Foster, Ralph Demmon Boozer, Benjamin Ivan Coutts
  • Publication number: 20210271382
    Abstract: A system and method for compiling and converting Aeronautical Radio Incorporated (ARINC) 424 or Digital Aeronautical Flight Information File (DAFIF) files into a binary database. The system and method include a controller module for displaying a comparison interface using a data structure comprising a plurality of nodes and a data architecture for supporting integration of multiple disparate navigation databases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2020
    Publication date: September 2, 2021
    Inventors: Jeffrey M. Plantinga, Andrew Jay Foster, Benjamin Ivan Coutts
  • Publication number: 20210272464
    Abstract: A system and method for compiling and converting Aeronautical Radio Incorporated (ARINC) 424 or Digital Aeronautical Flight Information File (DAFIF) files into a binary database. The system and method include a controller module for receiving, extracting, converting, performing a set of quality checks, and directing the output or communication of the binary database to a remote server. The remote server can include a controller module that can verify validity of the communicated binary database and create aircraft loadable media for a flight management system navigational database.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2020
    Publication date: September 2, 2021
    Inventors: Jeffrey M. Plantinga, Ralph Demmon Boozer, Benjamin Ivan Coutts
  • Publication number: 20170229028
    Abstract: System and methods for providing situational awareness information to an aircrew of an aircraft including projecting into space, from a grid generator at the landing zone, a set of lines defining a relative navigation grid and encoded with grid data and configured to identify predetermined points on the relative navigation grid that provide situational awareness, detecting, with a detector module on the aircraft, a location of the aircraft within the grid and generating and displaying situational awareness information based on detected location.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2017
    Publication date: August 10, 2017
    Inventors: Michael Steven Feldmann, Benjamin Ivan Coutts, Ralph Demmon Boozer
  • Publication number: 20160252351
    Abstract: System and methods for providing situational awareness information to an aircrew of an aircraft including projecting into space, from a grid generator at the landing zone, a set of lines defining a relative navigation grid and encoded with grid data and configured to identify predetermined points on the relative navigation grid that provide situational awareness, detecting, with a detector module on the aircraft, a location of the aircraft within the grid and generating and displaying situational awareness information based on detected location.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2015
    Publication date: September 1, 2016
    Inventors: Michael Steven Feldmann, Benjamin Ivan Coutts, Ralph Demmon Boozer