US 11,914,372 B2
Advanced flight processing system and/or method
Alexander Naiman, Boston, MA (US); Cynthia Comer, Boston, MA (US); and Molly Connolly, Boston, MA (US)
Assigned to Merlin Labs, Inc., Boston, MA (US)
Filed by Merlin Labs, Inc., Boston, MA (US)
Filed on Aug. 19, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/891,845.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/235,043, filed on Aug. 19, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0057709 A1, Feb. 23, 2023
Int. Cl. G05D 1/00 (2006.01); G08G 5/00 (2006.01); G10L 15/19 (2013.01); G10L 15/22 (2006.01); G05D 1/10 (2006.01); G01S 13/933 (2020.01); G01S 17/933 (2020.01); G10L 15/16 (2006.01)
CPC G05D 1/0088 (2013.01) [G01S 13/933 (2020.01); G01S 17/933 (2013.01); G05D 1/101 (2013.01); G08G 5/0013 (2013.01); G08G 5/0021 (2013.01); G10L 15/16 (2013.01); G10L 15/19 (2013.01); G10L 15/22 (2013.01); G10L 2015/223 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An aircraft system comprising:
an autonomous computing system communicatively coupled to a sensor suite onboard an aircraft, the autonomous computing system comprising a set of pre-trained neural networks, wherein the autonomous computing system is configured to determine a flight command with the set of pre-trained neural networks based on sensor data from the sensor suite;
an aircraft computing system partitioned from the autonomous computing system and communicatively coupled to the autonomous computing system, the aircraft computing system comprising:
a pilot validation interface communicatively coupled to a flight management system (FMS), the pilot validation interface configured to:
facilitate pilot validation of the flight command in a human-interpretable format; and
in response to pilot validation of the flight command, automatically facilitate execution of the flight command via the flight management system (FMS),
wherein the autonomous computing system is onboard the aircraft and the aircraft computing system partitioned from the autonomous computing system by a firewall.