ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,626, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Honeywell Aerospace US LLC (Phoenix).

"Service issue forecasting that adapts to aircraft operations" was invented by Pradeep Huncha (Bangalore, India), Sreenivasan Govindillam (Bangalore, India) and David Woodcock (Phoenix).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are provided for automatically forecasting service issues for an aircraft. The method accesses a service issue database that contains retrievable data regarding service issues for the aircraft. An operation flight plan for the aircraft is accessed including specific planned flight operations. The mission state of the aircraft...