US Patent Issued to The Boeing on Aug. 4 for "Systems and methods for estimating a fuel level for a flight of an aircraft" (Spanish, Belgian, American, Brazilian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,698,095, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Systems and methods for estimating a fuel level for a flight of an aircraft" was invented by David Garrido Lopez (Tres Cantos Madrid, Spain), Johan De Prins (Molenstede, Belgium), Maxim Constantijn Vos (Mostoles, Spain), Geun Il Kim (Bothell, Wash.) and Jose Alexandre Tavares Guerreiro Fregnani (Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and a method include a control unit configured to determine drag factors and fuel flow factors for different phases of one or more prior flights of an aircraft, and determine a fuel level for one or more ...