ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,808, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Dynamic approach procedure system" was invented by Jordan Timothy Meek (Portland, Maine) and Charles E. Gehin-Scott (Belfast, Maine).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus dynamically update customized integrated terminal approach procedure interfaces based on changing real-time events associated with aircraft and airports. A dynamic approach procedures application extracts and analyzes terminal approach data, aircraft data, airport data and real-time weather data to automatically generate an integrated terminal approach interface. The integrated te...