Patents by Inventor François NEFFLIER

François NEFFLIER 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).

  • Publication number: 20220406205
    Abstract: Devices and methods implemented by a computer for connecting between a human-machine interface (e.g. graphical), supplied with data, in particular traffic and meteorology data, and a system for computing paths (e.g. avionic flight management), for interactive exploration of usable flight paths for managing the spatial congestion around the path of a vehicle are provided. Developments describe the particular case of an aircraft, such as mission management, the gathering of spatial, temporal or technical constraints relating to the spatial congestion within the determined potential airspace, the monitoring of changes in the spatial congestion of the airspace, excursions of the aircraft, miscellaneous displays, and n particular superimposed displays. Various types of human-machine interfaces are described, involving virtual or augmented reality and being configured to display data in 2D, 3D and/or 4D.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2020
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Inventors: Marc DA CONCEICAO, Frédéric BONAMY, François NEFFLIER
  • Patent number: 10699582
    Abstract: Various methods for regulating and/or for integrating avionic systems with non-avionic systems are described. An avionic system is generally associated with a physical fault rate that is lower and a logic verification that is higher than those of a non-avionic system. Developments describe notably the use: of remote computing resources; of comparison, test, verification and authorization steps before injection of data of non-avionic origin into the avionics; of human-machine interaction methods; of various parameters (weather, air traffic, etc.) for the purpose of combinatorial optimization; and of electronic flight bags EFB and of flight management systems FMS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: THALES
    Inventors: Benoît Dacre-Wright, Olivier Pineau, François Nefflier
  • Publication number: 20200111371
    Abstract: A method for the remote piloting, with latency, of a remotely piloted aircraft, notably includes the steps of: receiving a position in space of the remotely piloted aircraft in a first flight management system or FMS; determining at least one lock point V on the flight plan at a later position than the said position; locking the path and/or the flight plan of the remotely piloted aircraft as far as V. Developments describe the communication and implementation of an amendment in an onboard second FMS, notably the prevention or the postponement of an amendment before or beyond V, the adjustment of the distance between the current position and V as a function of the speed and of the cumulative latency time, of the conditions of validity, of the options to display and to offset point(s) continuously, etc. Software and system aspects (fleets of land, sea, underwater, space, etc. systems) are described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2019
    Publication date: April 9, 2020
    Inventors: Michel ROGER, Frédéric BONAMY, François NEFFLIER
  • Publication number: 20180366008
    Abstract: Various methods for regulating and/or for integrating avionic systems with non-avionic systems are described. An avionic system is generally associated with a physical fault rate that is lower and a logic verification that is higher than those of a non-avionic system. Developments describe notably the use: of remote computing resources; of comparison, test, verification and authorization steps before injection of data of non-avionic origin into the avionics; of human-machine interaction methods; of various parameters (weather, air traffic, etc.) for the purpose of combinatorial optimization; and of electronic flight bags EFB and of flight management systems FMS.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2018
    Publication date: December 20, 2018
    Inventors: Benoît DACRE-WRIGHT, Olivier PINEAU, François NEFFLIER
  • Patent number: 10147327
    Abstract: A method for integrating a constrained aircraft route(s) optimization application is implemented in an avionics onboard system comprising a DAL+ core computer and a DAL? peripheral computer for managing the application. The method of integration determines an optimal functional and physical distribution of the elementary functions OPT_RTE_FU(i) of the application within the onboard avionics system over the set of possible distributions which minimizes a global cost criterion CG, dependent on several parameters, including at least the additional development cost of the elementary functions integrated within the DAL+ digital core computer, and carries out the integration of the application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: THALES
    Inventors: François Nefflier, Hervé Aulfinger, Patrick Pierre
  • Publication number: 20170011636
    Abstract: A method for integrating a constrained aircraft route(s) optimization application is implemented in an avionics onboard system comprising a DAL+ core computer and a DAL? peripheral computer for managing the application. The method of integration determines an optimal functional and physical distribution of the elementary functions OPT_RTE_FU(i) of the application within the onboard avionics system over the set of possible distributions which minimizes a global cost criterion CG, dependent on several parameters, including at least the additional development cost of the elementary functions integrated within the DAL+ digital core computer, and carries out the integration of the application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2016
    Publication date: January 12, 2017
    Inventors: François NEFFLIER, Hervé AULFINGER, Patrick PIERRE