ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,906, issued on May 20, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Systems, apparatus, and methods for providing data from an aircraft in a compliant data format" was invented by Gregory T. Saccone (Seattle), Ryan D. Hale (Kent, Wash.), Michael Matyas (Monroe, Mo.), Louis J. Bailey (Covington, Wash.) and Bradley D. Cornell (Moses Lake, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, apparatus, and methods for providing data in a pre-determined format with minimal impact from an aircraft to an interested entity are disclosed. One system includes a data processing system configured to store executable code to receive data, wherein ...