US Patent Issued to The Boeing on Nov. 25 for "Systems and methods for monitoring a flight plan of an aircraft" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,482,362, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Systems and methods for monitoring a flight plan of an aircraft" was invented by Stephen Solomon Altus (Campbell, Calif.), William Jenden (Vancouver, Canada), Peng Chen (Vancouver, Canada) and Shefali Sharma (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and a method include a monitoring control unit configured to compare an initial flight plan, as generated by a flight planner for an aircraft, and an assessed flight plan, as determined by air traffic control. The monitoring control unit is further configured to determine one or more alternate i...