US Patent Issued to The Boeing on July 7 for "Leg type entry on flight management system" (Spanish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,069, issued on July 7, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Leg type entry on flight management system" was invented by David Rubio Mota (Madrid), Maxim Constantijn Vos (Madrid) and Daniel Ramiro Rebollo (Madrid).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to an FMS configured to accept a plurality of flight legs (beyond the standard five) for consideration when developing a flight plan. Allowing an FMS to receive a plurality of flight legs, beyond just five, is achieved by calculating a lateral trajectory and a vertical trajectory based on the current state of the flight path. This may be done mid-flight...