US Patent Issued to The Boeing on Oct. 14 for "Systems and methods for controlling an aircraft using dissimilar air data" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,483, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Systems and methods for controlling an aircraft using dissimilar air data" was invented by Sherwin Chunshek Li (Edmonds, Wash.), Ryan L. Pettit (Snohomish, Wash.), Bryan A. Lopez (Seattle), Robert Erik Freeman (Seattle), Melville D. W. McIntyre (Mercer Island, Wash.), Leonard J. Inderhees (Bothell, Wash.) and Russell T. Bridgewater (Monroe, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and a method include air data sensors configured to detect one more characteristics of air surrounding an aircraft. At least three of the air data sensors differ in type. The air...