Guiding the development of Rockwell Collins’ patent portfolio

Finnegan has guided the development of Rockwell Collins’ portfolio that includes over 50 patents and pending applications directed to control and navigation of manned and unmanned air vehicles. These patents cover technologies ranging from fault-tolerant automatic control systems, single lever power controllers, systems for controlling multi-input/multi-output systems using feedback LTI’zation, image-augmented inertial navigation systems, celestial-image augmented navigation and targeting systems, vertical take-off and landing control systems, systems for autonomously landing aircraft, and systems for improving the efficiency of power generation systems.