ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,742, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Maintenance induction for aircraft" was invented by John Boggio (Berkeley, Mo.) and Alexander Burch (Berkeley, Mo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for predicting structural degradation and performing maintenance induction for a plurality of in-service aircraft is provided. The apparatus identifies maintenance requirements for the plurality of in-service aircraft and receives fatigue metric values on historical usage and structural health condition of the plurality of in-service aircraft. The apparatus predicts levels of structural degradation to the p...