US Patent Issued to THE BOEING on June 16 for "Aircraft fuel quantity indication system and method" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,656,159, issued on June 16, was assigned to THE BOEING COMPANY (Arlington, Va.).

"Aircraft fuel quantity indication system and method" was invented by Sigvard Johann Wahlin (Bothell, Wash.) and Andrew Frederick Douglass (Issaquah, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aircraft fueling adapter incorporating an aircraft fueling adapter flow meter is disclosed for improving accuracy of fueling protocols by providing an additional independent flow data point in mass units and/or volume units in the fueling process that can be compared against existing fuel flow readings."

The patent was filed on Oct. 27, 2023, under Application No. 18/496...