Patents by Inventor James F. McAndrew

James F. McAndrew 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).

  • Layered subsystem architecture for a flight management system
    Patent number: 6317659
    Abstract: An improved aircraft flight management system (FMS) based on a layered subsystem architecture, residing on a computing platform and including an operator interface subsystem, a communications subsystem, a flight management subsystem, and a database management subsystem, wherein the architecture is predicated on the enforcement of subsystem-dependency rules wherein a given subsystem is allowed to depend only upon another subsystem in the same or lower hierarchical layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 1999
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2001
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Steven Edward Lindsley, Richard Dean Clement, James F. McAndrew, Angela Grace Morgan, Kenneth Michael Munoz