Honeywell Hits Aerospace Company With Patent Suit Over Software

Honeywell International Inc. sued Lone Star Aerospace Inc. alleging its software products, providing operational analytics for aircrafts, infringed five patents.

Lone Star Aerospace, doing business as Lone Star Analytics, makes software helping fleet managers monitor the maintenance status or productivity of their airplanes,, according to the complaint filed Friday in the US District Court for the Northern District of Texas. Honeywell said the MaxUp software product line uses similar methods as US Patent Nos. 7,010,651; 7,483,810; 8,258,936; 8,896,437 and 11,016,477.

• Honeywell said Lone Star’s MaxUp Fleet software infringes the ‘651, ‘810 and ‘936 patents by collecting ...