US Patent Issued to THE BOEING on Dec. 2 for "Computation of aircraft airspeed by inclusion of static air temperature" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,486,041, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to THE BOEING COMPANY (Arlington, Va.).

"Computation of aircraft airspeed by inclusion of static air temperature" was invented by Arun Anant Nadkarni (Kirkland, Wash.) and Douglas L. Wilson (Mercer Island, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system may include a static air temperature probe attached to an aircraft, an electronic flight instrument system, and a processor. The processor may be configured to measure a static air temperature at the aircraft using the static air temperature probe. The processor may further be configured to calculate a Mach number associated with the aircraft based at ...