US Patent Issued to The Boeing on Sept. 1 for "Selecting altitude changing phase routes for aircraft" (Virginia Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,528, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Selecting altitude changing phase routes for aircraft" was invented by Samet Ayhan (Fairfax, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for selecting an altitude changing phase route for an aircraft is presented. The method comprises receiving sequences of multivariate flight data from at least one prior flight, receiving a set of flight parameters for the aircraft including at least a total altitude change and a takeoff weight, and receiving a set of candidate altitude changing phase routes having candidate step profiles. For each candidate altitude changing ...