ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,372, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Systems and methods for increasing fuel efficiency for an aircraft" was invented by Prasad Rao Piradi (Karnataka, India) and Gurender Singh (Karnataka, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and a method include a control unit configured to receive data regarding an aircraft, and determine, based on the data, one or more economy speeds for the aircraft to fly between a departure airport and an arrival airport."

The patent was filed on Sept. 13, 2023, under Application No. 18/466,067.

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