US Patent Issued to The Boeing on July 7 for "Master data model for aviation training" (Washington, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,080, issued on July 7, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Master data model for aviation training" was invented by James T. Crabbe (Tacoma, Wash.), Ken J. Cyr (Flower Mound, Texas), Dennis Yip (Bellevue, Wash.), Miguel Herrera (Sammamish, Wash.), Trong Nyguyen (Coppell, Texas) and Cay Tran (Coppell, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides ingesting unstructured data (e.g., a flight manual) containing procedures for operating an aircraft and converting that unstructured data into semi-structured data that lists the procedures along with the steps in those procedures. Further, the procedural s...