US Patent Issued to The Boeing on Jan. 13 for "Detection and reporting of aircraft diversion events" (German, Spanish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,525,132, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Detection and reporting of aircraft diversion events" 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: "A method for detecting and reporting an aircraft diversion event includes receiving a continuous real-time surveillance stream via a server from a real-time surveillance system. The surveillance stream describes respective flight trajectories a population of aircraft in a defined three-dimensional (3D) airspace. The method also includes accessing historical flig...