ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,604, issued on May 12, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Real-time aircraft flight delay prediction" was invented by Andres Munoz Hernandez (Munich), Manuel Polaina Morales (Munich) and Alejandro Guemes Jimenez (Madrid).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples are disclosed that related to providing flight-delay estimations of airborne flights in a real-time environment. In one example, an aircraft information message for a current aircraft flight is received. The aircraft information message has a designated format consumable by a machine learning model previously trained to assess delay predictions for aircraft flights...