ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,344, issued on March 17, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Hosting pre-certified systems, remote activation of customer options, and optimization of flight algorithms in an emulated environment with real world operational conditions and data" was invented by Jason W. Shelton (Edgewood, Wash.), Timothy M. Mitchell (Seattle) and Gail Bohnhoff-Hlavacek (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and apparatus for hosting pre-certified systems, remote activation of customer options, and optimization of flight algorithms in an emulated environment with real world operational conditions and data are disclosed...