US Patent Issued to APiJET on March 24 for "Systems, apparatus and methods for aircraft flight planning and efficient communications with aircraft" (Washington, New Mexico Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,749, issued on March 24, was assigned to APiJET LLC (Seattle).

"Systems, apparatus and methods for aircraft flight planning and efficient communications with aircraft" was invented by Brian Robert Magnuson (Spokane Valley, Wash.), John Lucien David Young (Glorieta, N.M.) and Robert D. Green (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Flight planning and/or optimizing flight plans can be performed using ground-based systems with little or no instrumented data, providing efficient communications between aircraft and ground-based systems. Estimates of airspeeds (i.e., derived airspeed) can be derived from transponder telemetry, which is op...