US Patent Issued to The Boeing on Oct. 14 for "Message arbitrator for aircraft trajectory management" (Washington Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,312, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Message arbitrator for aircraft trajectory management" was invented by Paul A. van Tulder (Burien, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, apparatus, system, and computer program product for managing a trajectory for an aircraft. A computer system receives an agreed trajectory change for a future portion of the trajectory for the aircraft. The strategic trajectory message is approved by a strategic air traffic controller. The computer system determines whether the agreed trajectory change has been received within a strategic time horizon for making strat...