ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,486,042, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).
"Holding pattern detection and management" was invented by Marko Zoricic (Dreieich, Germany), Andreas Sindlinger (Weinheim, Germany) and David Scarlatti (Madrid).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides for holding pattern detection and management by detecting an aircraft has traveled at least a predefined distance along a flight path for the aircraft, identifying from flight data for an aircraft that the aircraft has performed maneuvers that may indicate a holding pattern, determining that the aircraft is not in a racetrack pattern, and when ...