US Patent Issued to The Boeing on Oct. 7 for "Optimizing a flight of an aircraft with at least one segment of formation flight" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,654, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Optimizing a flight of an aircraft with at least one segment of formation flight" was invented by Kirk A. Vining (Renton, Wash.), Alvin L. Sipe (Kenmore, Wash.), Dragos D. Margineantu (Bellevue, Wash.) and Tristan C. Flanzer (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided for optimizing a flight of an aircraft with at least one segment of formation flight. The method includes accessing flight plans for flights of a fleet, and transforming the flight plans into values of a set of features that describe segments of the flights. The values are applied t...