US Patent Issued to The Boeing on Feb. 24 for "Systems and methods for real time determination of a fuel level for an aircraft" (German, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,559,252, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Systems and methods for real time determination of a fuel level for an aircraft" was invented by Michael-Christian Buddefeld (Hesse, Germany), Hendrik Schoniger (Hesse, Germany), Samantha Schwartz (Castle Pines, Colo.) and Forest Sutton (Aurora, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and a method include a control unit configured to determine one or more fuel levels for an aircraft at one or more arrival airports for one or more alternate flight plans that divert from an original flight plan. The control unit is configured to determine the one or more fu...