ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,394,322, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Raytheon Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Equitable resource access through adjudication of flight plan requests or other requests" was invented by Waseem Naqvi (Marlborough, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes obtaining information associated with requests to access at least one shared resource. The requests are associated with multiple requestors wishing to access or use the at least one shared resource. The method also includes generating at least one expected distribution of requests. The at least one expected distribution of requests defines one or more expected or desired charact...