US Patent Issued to The Boeing on April 8 for "Systems and methods for determining a phase of flight of an aircraft" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,272,253, issued on April 8, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Chicago).

"Systems and methods for determining a phase of flight of an aircraft" was invented by Ralf Rene Shu-Zhong Cabos (Hainburg Hesse, Germany), Andreas Sindlinger (Weinheim Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany), Sabine Rath (Zwingenberg Hessia, Germany) and Jennifer Mayer (Hasselroth Hessia, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and a method include a phase determination control unit configured to receive position data of an aircraft, determine variables from messages received from the aircraft, apply fuzzy logic to the variables to determine scores for possible phases of ...