ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,293,669, issued on May 6, was assigned to Airbus SAS (Blagnac, France).
"Aircraft pairing tool for formation flight" was invented by Imad Lebbos (Blagnac, France), Daniel Percy (Blagnac, France) and Julio Hernanz Gonzalez (Blagnac, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aircraft pairing system and method are provided to arrange for scheduling flights of two or more aircraft. The system and method allow to identify pairs of aircraft flights, wherein the aircraft can be brought together into a formation with a follower aircraft flying in the wake upwash of a leader aircraft to generate fuel savings. The system and method utilize historic...