US Patent Issued to THE BOEING on March 24 for "Flight planning based on societal impact considerations" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,477, issued on March 24, was assigned to THE BOEING COMPANY (Arlington, Va.).

"Flight planning based on societal impact considerations" was invented by Michael Christian Buddefeld (Neu-Isenburg, Germany), Hugo Eduardo Teomitzi (Darmstadt, Germany) and Anna-Lisa Mautes (Darmstadt, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes obtaining, at a device, source and destination data for one or more upcoming flights through a particular airspace. The method also includes obtaining, at the device, a map of societal impact hotspots associated with traffic through the particular airspace, and generating, based on the map of societal...