US Patent Issued to The Boeing on Aug. 11 for "Systems and methods for determining emergency escape paths for aircraft" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,847, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Systems and methods for determining emergency escape paths for aircraft" was invented by Mark David McCabe (Larkspur, Colo.), Alexander Bellemare-Davis (Vancouver BC, Canada), Meng Xi Hu (Vancouver BC, Canada), Yun Chu (New Westminster BC, Canada) and Tina Pan (Vancouver BC, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system (for determining one or more emergency escape paths for one or more emergencies that can occur during a flight of an aircraft) includes a control unit configured to automatically determine the one or more emergency escape paths for the one or m...