ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,285, issued on March 4, was assigned to Merlin Labs Inc. (Boston).

"System and method for aircraft configuration checking" was invented by Matthew George (Boston), Alexander Naiman (Boston), Angel Macias (Boston), Aubrey Kalashian (Boston) and Kevin Elfenbein (Boston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The method can include: optionally determining an aircraft state; determining a transition event; verifying an aircraft configuration; determining an aircraft alert state; and performing an action. However, the method can additionally or alternatively include any other suitable elements. The method functions to facilitate configuration chec...