US Patent Issued to The Boeing on Sept. 9 for "Centralized ledger for airline maintenance control" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,161, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Centralized ledger for airline maintenance control" was invented by Richard F. Schlegelmilch (North Bend, Wash.), Gaston Grenier (Surrey, Canada), Sanjay Sarup Bhatia (Langley, Canada), Satish Shivanand Madiwal (Richmond, Canada), Yew Woo (Burnaby, Canada), Wendy Co (Vancouver, Canada) and Kristina A. Denisova (Maple Valley, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Processing a vehicle maintenance transaction is provided. The method comprises receiving the transaction and entering the transaction into a blockchain ledger. In response to the transaction, an enhance...