US Patent Issued to THE BOEING on Aug. 12 for "System and method for taxiing operations in multi-engine aircraft" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,384,557, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to THE BOEING COMPANY (Arlingotn, Va.).

"System and method for taxiing operations in multi-engine aircraft" was invented by Samantha A. Schwartz (Castle Pines, Colo.) and Garoe Gonzalez (Frankfurt, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for determining which engine of an aircraft to start first for a taxiing operation and/or for estimating a total amount of fuel needed by the aircraft for conducting the taxiing operation includes receiving or accessing historical fuel usage data for each of the first and second engines, receiving or accessing taxiway information, determining wh...