Patents by Inventor Ross McNeil Brown

Ross McNeil Brown 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).

  • Methods and systems for performing charting tasks
    Patent number: 9618360
    Abstract: A method for accessing information on an electronic version of an navigation information display is described. The method includes displaying navigation information in a first portion of a display of a device, the device incorporating a touch screen, sensing a user touch on the touch screen, determining, by the device, a selected location on the touch screen where the user touch has occurred, correlating the selected location on the touch screen where the user touch has occurred with a location on the navigation information display, displaying a magnified area of a portion of the navigation information proximate the location on the touch screen where the user touch occurred, and displaying textual information related to the magnified area in a second portion of the display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventor: Ross McNeil Brown
  • METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PERFORMING CHARTING TASKS
    Publication number: 20160320204
    Abstract: A method for accessing information on an electronic version of an navigation information display is described. The method includes displaying navigation information in a first portion of a display of a device, the device incorporating a touch screen, sensing a user touch on the touch screen, determining, by the device, a selected location on the touch screen where the user touch has occurred, correlating the selected location on the touch screen where the user touch has occurred with a location on the navigation information display, displaying a magnified area of a portion of the navigation information proximate the location on the touch screen where the user touch occurred, and displaying textual information related to the magnified area in a second portion of the display device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2016
    Publication date: November 3, 2016
    Inventor: Ross McNeil Brown
  • Methods and systems for performing charting tasks
    Patent number: 9404767
    Abstract: A method for accessing information on an electronic version of an navigation information display is described. The method includes displaying navigation information on a display of a device, the device incorporating a touch screen, sensing a user touch on the touch screen, determining, by the device, a location on the touch screen where the user touch has occurred, correlating the location on the touch screen where the user touch has occurred with a location on the navigation information display, and displaying a magnified area of a portion of the navigation information proximate the location on the touch screen where the user touch occurred.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2016
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventor: Ross McNeil Brown
  • METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PERFORMING CHARTING TASKS
    Publication number: 20120316776
    Abstract: A method for accessing information on an electronic version of an navigation information display is described. The method includes displaying navigation information on a display of a device, the device incorporating a touch screen, sensing a user touch on the touch screen, determining, by the device, a location on the touch screen where the user touch has occurred, correlating the location on the touch screen where the user touch has occurred with a location on the navigation information display, and displaying a magnified area of a portion of the navigation information proximate the location on the touch screen where the user touch occurred.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2011
    Publication date: December 13, 2012
    Inventor: Ross McNeil Brown