ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,655, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).
"Flight plan evaluation" was invented by Manuel Polaina Morales (Munich), Javier Lopez Leones (Majadahonda, Spain) and Ruben Vega Astorga (Leganes, Spain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure provide systems and methods for evaluating a flight plan with respect to an executed route of an aircraft. An example method includes obtaining data associated with a route of a vehicle. The method further includes determining a first cost index associated with the route based at least in part on a segment of the data. The method further includes co...