ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,397, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to THE BOEING COMPANY (Arlington, Va.).

"Systems and methods for terminal procedure prediction for flight planning" was invented by Theresa Emsbach (Schoellkrippen, Germany), Andrea Sanzone (Frankfurt, Germany), Vinko Vidakovic (Frankfurt, Germany), Jwalant Dipakkumar Vaishnav (Wiesbaden, Germany) and Kennedy C. Nwankwo (Langen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for terminal procedure prediction for flight planning include obtaining, at a processor, input data corresponding to an upcoming flight of an aircraft; obtaining, at the processor, predicted data corresponding to t...