US Patent Issued to The Boeing on Aug. 4 for "Aircraft modular data collection platform" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,700,315, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Aircraft modular data collection platform" was invented by Nathan D. Hiller (Irvine, Calif.) and Claudia E. Fritz-Thompson (Bothell, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aircraft data collection system comprising a set of removable data collection units and a computer system. The set of removable data collection units is loadable into a compartment in a commercial aircraft. The computer system is configured to control operation of the set of removable data collection units to collect data during a flight of the commercial aircraft on a flight path. A third par...