US Patent Issued to GE Aviation Systems on Oct. 28 for "Network digital twin of airline operations" (American, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,456,080, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to GE Aviation Systems LLC (Grand Rapids, Mich.).

"Network digital twin of airline operations" was invented by Michael Arguello (Austin, Texas), Charles P. Ephraim (Austin, Texas), Jonathan Mark Dunsdon (Murphys, Calif.), Stephen Jonathan Davis (Eastleigh, Great Britain) and Kristin M. Schanche (Fairfield, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods of planning and scheduling resources of an airline include using machine learning models to generate custom behavioral characteristics for a plurality of operational components of the airline based on operations data. The custom behavioral ...