ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,782, issued on July 21, was assigned to Mammoth Freighters LLC (Fort Worth, Texas).

"Method, system, and computer-readable medium for calibrating performance parameters of an aircraft during a phantom fuel procedure" was invented by David Carter (Keller, Texas), Jared Carter (Roanoke, Texas) and Paul Desrochers (Weatherford, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system, method, and computer-readable medium for calibrating performance parameters of an aircraft during a phantom fuel procedure, including determining an independent fuel weight parameter during operation of the aircraft value based on output of fuel level sensors of a fu...