ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,546,262, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).
"Predicting fuel burn and emissions for aircraft" was invented by Samet Ayhan (Fairfax, Va.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for fueling an aircraft comprises (a) predicting a sequence of fuel-burn quantities over a planned flight based on at least one sequence of multivariate flight data recorded during a prior flight and on a hidden state of a trained machine. For each of a pre-selected series of prior flights, a corresponding sequence of multivariate flight data recorded during the prior flight is processed in a trainable machine to develop the hidden ...