ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,365,480, issued on July 22, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Quantitative measurement of air turbulence" was invented by Bhanu Pratap Singh Thakur (Himachal Pradesh, India), Tim W. Anstey (Seattle) and Ameya Deepak Kamat (Maharashtra, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples provide a method and system for quantitatively measuring air turbulence. A turbulence measuring application on each user device in a plurality of user devices associated with a plurality of users at a plurality of different locations within an aircraft generates vibration data and positional data associated with turbulence detected at each user'...