ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,602, issued on May 12, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Forecasting using real-time flight leg data" was invented by Shervin Beygi (Seattle), Jiawen Liang (Vancouver, Canada), Duane M. Davis (Seattle), Veronica Macinnis (North Vancouver, Canada) and Andrew J. Parker (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, apparatus, system, and computer program product for managing flight leg data for flight legs flown by a plurality of aircraft. A computer system receives the flight leg data for the flight legs flown by the plurality of aircraft in real-time. The computer system associates aircraft operation data and airpor...