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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 20, 2004
Filed:
Jun. 21, 2002
Applicant:
Inventors:
Kathryn W. Ybarra, Surprise, AZ (US);
Cyro A. Stone, Peoria, AZ (US);
Assignee:
Aviation Communication & Surveillance Systems LLC, Phoenix, AZ (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/700 ; B60T 8/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/700 ; B60T 8/00 ;
Abstract
A traffic collision avoidance system has a transponder with an interrogation monitoring engine for receiving interrogations and an interrogation response engine for inhibiting responses to the interrogations if the interrogations are air traffic control interrogations and the transponder is in a quiet mode. Typically the transponder enters quiet mode during military formation flight if the aircraft in which the transponder is installed is not a tail or lead member of the formation.