US Patent Issued to THE BOEING on Dec. 2 for "Methods and apparatus for monitoring aircraft descent rates" (Spanish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,697, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to THE BOEING COMPANY (Chicago).

"Methods and apparatus for monitoring aircraft descent rates" was invented by Pablo Costas Alvarez (Madrid), Javier Lopez Leones (Madrid), Luis Pedro D'Alto (Madrid) and Ruben Vega Astorga (Madrid).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system that includes an ingress module arranged to receive flight data having a descent rate value and an altitude value. The system also has a data store with descent rate threshold values of at least one aircraft model. The descent rate threshold values are associated, in the data store, with pressure altitude values. The system also inclu...