US Patent Issued to AIRBUS DEFENCE AND SPACE, S.A.U. on June 17 for "Method for determining a flight plan" (Spanish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,951, issued on June 17, was assigned to AIRBUS DEFENCE AND SPACE, S.A.U. (Madrid).

"Method for determining a flight plan" was invented by Nans Darraillan (Madrid) and Alvaro Sanz Duran (Madrid).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer implemented method to generate a flight plan for a flight mission of an aircraft by calculating, based on an optimization criterion, successive states, e.g., flight way points, along the flight plan to generate a four dimensional flight route including the aircraft latitude, longitude, altitude and time, and aircraft performance constraints results."

The patent was filed on Nov. 3, 2022, under Applicat...