Felix Hoffmann, a German chemist, was searching for something to relieve his father's arthritis. In doing so, he "rediscovered" acetylsalicylic acid and in 1900, patented a stable process for developing it. Hence, we have aspirin.
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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20110257874 | METHOD AND SYSTEM TO AUTOMATICALLY GENERATE A CLEARANCE REQUEST TO DEVIATE FROM A FLIGHT PLAN A method to generate a clearance request to deviate from a flight plan is provided. The method includes receiving at one or more processors in an airborne vehicle input from at least one automatic flight-plan-relevant source, at least one of the one or more processors i... | 10/20/2011 |
| 20110144897 | Tracking of Suspect Aircraft Described herein are systems and methods for tracking suspect aircraft. One embodiment is related to a method including receiving location data and current flight data of an aircraft, analyzing the location data and current flight data using flight behavior algorithms, ... | 06/16/2011 |
| 20100100308 | Device for Calculating a Flight Plan of an Aircraft The invention relates to a device for formulating a flight plan ensuring sufficient safety margins for a duration of a few minutes in relation to the set of flight constraints that could arise and comprising means for:
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| 20090240424 | Open community model for exchanging information in dynamic environments An open community model for information exchange enables individuals to plan and attain superior outcomes in a dynamic environment. A continually “world model” maintains information about the dynamic environment that is valuable for individuals of the open community... | 09/24/2009 |
| 20090157288 | Air Traffic Control Delay Factor A time factor corresponding to an airspace delay or acceleration is communicated to an aircraft. A flight management computer or other computational device of the aircraft calculates a proposed change in trajectory in order to accommodate the time factor in an optimum o... | 06/18/2009 |
| 20090132157 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONSTRUCTING VARIABLE OFFSET PATHS A method is provided for constructing an offset, and includes constructing the capture path, which includes selecting a capture path start point on a first leg of the flight path and selecting a first capture path angle; determining whether a first capture path segment ... | 05/21/2009 |
| 20090076717 | METHOD FOR ASSISTING AN AIRCRAFT TO REJOIN A FLIGHT PLAN BY INTERCEPTION OF A FLIGHT SEGMENT CLOSE TO THE AIRCRAFT A method for assisting an aircraft to rejoin a flight plan is disclosed. The flight plan is composed of a number N of flight segments (LEGi, i⊂[1, N]) with a flight segment LEGi being defined by a departure end (WPTi−1) and by an arr... | 03/19/2009 |
| 20080065312 | GUIDANCE METHOD FOR TEMPORARILY DEVIATING A VEHICLE INITIALLY FOLLOWING A PREDEFINED PATH The present invention relates to a guidance method for temporarily deviating a vehicle initially following a predefined path. The method is characterized in that the modalities according to which the vehicle leaves the predefined path, accompanied by conditions based on... | 03/13/2008 |