US Patent Issued to ARINC on Nov. 18 for "System and method for encoding mission configuration and passenger experience data for urban air mobility (UAM) passenger transport" (Iowa, Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,799, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to ARINC Inc. (Annapolis, Md.).

"System and method for encoding mission configuration and passenger experience data for urban air mobility (UAM) passenger transport" was invented by Boe A. Svatek (Cedar Rapids, Iowa), Nicholas J. Liberko (Marion, Iowa), Patrick Cosgrove (Cedar Rapids, Iowa) and Andrew Donnelly (Baltimore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for transporting passengers via uncrewed aircraft systems (UAS) receives passenger requests for transport between origin and destination points. Based on the request a transport plan is generated for each passenger, identifying th...