US Patent Issued to The Boeing on July 28 for "Systems and methods for confirming identity and location of an aircraft within an airspace" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,795, issued on July 28, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Systems and methods for confirming identity and location of an aircraft within an airspace" was invented by Gregory Kimberly (Seattle) and Jae H. Kim (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes an aircraft including a position sensor configured to output a position signal regarding a position of the aircraft within an airspace, and a propulsion system configured to output a position confirmation signal regarding the position of the aircraft within the airspace. A method includes outputting, by a position sensor of an aircraft, a position s...