US Patent Issued to The Boeing on April 15 for "Systems and methods for determining real time fuel consumption information of an aircraft" (German, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,276,231, issued on April 15, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Systems and methods for determining real time fuel consumption information of an aircraft" was invented by Forest Sutton (Aurora, Colo.), Stephen Solomon Altus (Campbell, Calif.), Samantha Schwartz (Castle Pines, Colo.), Hendrik Schoeniger (Dreieich, Germany), Michael Christian Buddefeld (Neu-Isenburg, Germany), Maximilian Peter Juengst (Frankfurt am Main, Germany), Salin Maharjan (Offenbach, Germany) and Andrea Sanzone (Hamburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes one or more control units configured to determine one or more fuel consumpti...