ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,321, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Prognostication and amelioration of gas ingress in hydraulic systems" was invented by Jun Yuan (Sammamish, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Prognostication and amelioration of gas ingress in hydraulic systems can be provided by identifying a stable reading window when operating a carrying system comprising a hydraulic system; collecting a set of fluid level readings of a hydraulic fluid in the hydraulic system during a plurality of stable reading windows across a corresponding plurality of operational instances of the carrying system; calculating median f...