US Patent Issued to The Boeing on Sept. 22 for "Aircraft flight path noise reduction" (Virginia Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,102, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Aircraft flight path noise reduction" was invented by Samet Ayhan (Fairfax, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for aircraft flight path generation includes, at a computing system, receiving, for a plurality of waypoints in a geographic area, predicted aircraft noise levels for an aircraft at each waypoint of the plurality of waypoints, the predicted aircraft noise levels predicted based at least in part on a plurality of flight parameters for the aircraft. The predicted aircraft noise levels are input to a flight path prediction system configured to ...