ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,037, issued on July 8, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"System for determining aircraft turnaround time based on geospatial data and aircraft location data" was invented by Jakub Dziecielski (Gdansk, Poland), Andrea Sanzone (Frankfurt, Germany), Rowena Loh (Singapore), Rahul Ashok (Singapore) and Garoe Gonzalez (Frankfurt, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for determining a turnaround time for an aircraft at an airport includes one or more processors, one or more geospatial databases storing geospatial data, and a memory coupled to the one or more processors and the one or more geospatial databases. The ...