US Patent Issued to The Boeing on June 23 for "Optimizing flights of a fleet of aircraft using a reinforcement learning model" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,902, issued on June 23, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Optimizing flights of a fleet of aircraft using a reinforcement learning model" was invented by Kirk A. Vining (Renton, Wash.), Alvin L. Sipe (Kenmore, Wash.) and Dragos D. Margineantu (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of optimizing flights of a fleet of aircraft is provided. The method includes accessing flight plans for flights of a fleet of aircraft through an air transportation network, tracking positions and trajectories of one or more aircraft of the fleet that are currently in-flight, and applying the flight plans and the positions...