ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,559,257, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Systems and methods for coordinating maintenance operations for aircraft" was invented by Chitra Duraisamy (Richmond, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and a method include a scanner configured to scan one or more codes associated with an aircraft. A user interface includes a display. A maintenance control unit is configured to receive scanned data regarding the one or more codes from the scanner, and show one or more maintenance operations for the aircraft on the display in response to receiving the scanned data."

The patent was filed on Nov. 15,...