ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,693, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to SITA Information Networking Computing UK Ltd. (Middlesex, Great Britain).

"System and method for flight arrival time prediction" was invented by Morten Tobias Jorgensen (Killaloe, Ireland) and Ayse Gul Ozkan (Hampshire, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and computer implemented method for predicting a flight arrival time of a given aircraft flight, between an origin airport and a destination airport, of a given aircraft based on a set of features is disclosed. The method comprises determining a predicted time delay of a flight departure time of the given aircraft flight from t...