ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,347,327, issued on July 1, was assigned to THE BOEING COMPANY (Arlington, Va.).

"Methods and systems for creating a set of routes for an aircraft to travel through an airspace" was invented by Alan Eugene Bruce (Kent, Wash.), Ronen Elkoby (Los Angeles) and Trevor Craig Blanarik (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems to develop routes for an aircraft to travel through an airspace. The system includes interface circuitry to receive one or more objectives and one or more constraints for the routes. Processing circuitry is configured to optimize the routes based on one or more of the input parameters. The processing circu...