US Patent Issued to The Boeing on Sept. 9 for "Aircraft flight path clearing light beams" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,240, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Aircraft flight path clearing light beams" was invented by Nathan D. Hiller (Irvine, Calif.) and Claudia E. Fritz-Thompson (Bothell, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A flight path clearing system comprises a light beam generator configured to emit a set of light beams and a controller. The controller is configured to select a set of wavelengths for the set of light beams that attract insects and control the light beam generator to emit the set of light beams with the set of wavelengths in a direction relative to the flight path for an aircraft."

The paten...