ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,448,141, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to THE BOEING COMPANY (Arlington, Va.).

"Systems and methods for aircraft thrust rating model processing" was invented by Theresa J. Hirsch (Laguna Niguel, Calif.), Geun I. Kim (Bothell, Wash.), John William Alaimo Jr. (Lynwood, Wash.) and Mark Aaron Ulrich (Everett, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aircraft includes engines, electronic engine controllers (EECs) associated with the engines, and a flight management computer (FMC). The FMC includes a non-volatile memory and processor(s) configured to perform one or more error check operations based on engine data from a non-volatile memory of...