US Patent Issued to ROLLS-ROYCE on June 17 for "Flight profile" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,331,692, issued on June 17, was assigned to ROLLS-ROYCE PLC (London).

"Flight profile" was invented by Peter Swann (Derby, Great Britain), Craig W Bemment (Derby, Great Britain), Alastair G Hobday (Derby, Great Britain), Benjamin J Keeler (Derby, Great Britain) and Christopher P Madden (Derby, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of operating an aircraft including a gas turbine engine and a fuel tank arranged to provide fuel to the gas turbine engine. The method includes: determining at least one fuel characteristic of the fuel arranged to be provided to the gas turbine engine; and proposing or initiating a change to a f...