ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,351,343, issued on July 8, was assigned to Airbus Operations GmbH (Hamburg, Germany).

"Method for autonomous servicing of an aircraft, and a service panel, aircraft and system providing for autonomous servicing of an aircraft" was invented by Frank Schneider (Ahlerstedt, Germany), Hannes Muller (Hamburg, Germany), Michael Rempe (Hamburg, Germany), Tim Lubbert (Wedel, Germany) and Frederik Albers (Ahlerstedt, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a method for servicing an aircraft by a ground service unit. The method comprises reading a wireless parameter signal from a transponder at the aircraft, decodin...