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Date of Patent:
Jan. 06, 2026

Filed:

Apr. 06, 2023
Applicant:

The Boeing Company, Arlington, VA (US);

Inventor:

Marco La Civita, Madrid, ES;

Assignee:

THE BOEING COMPANY, Arlington, VA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G05D 1/00 (2024.01); G01G 19/414 (2006.01); G08G 5/34 (2025.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G05D 1/101 (2013.01); G01G 19/414 (2013.01); G08G 5/34 (2025.01);
Abstract

A method of generating an estimated initial mass of an aircraft includes obtaining a first sequence of instructions indicating aircraft intent for a particular phase of a flight. The first sequence of instructions includes multiple sequential tabular instructions for a set of segments of the particular phase, and operation of the aircraft according to the first sequence of instructions would result in a particular altitude profile during the particular phase. The method includes determining, using a bounded optimization operation, a first estimated mass of the aircraft and a throttle law instruction that, together, result in the particular altitude profile over a group of the segments. The method includes generating a second sequence of instructions that replaces the tabular instructions for the group of the segments with the throttle law instruction. The method also includes determining the estimated initial mass at least partially based on the first estimated mass.


Find Patent Forward Citations

La Civita, Marco. (2026). Aircraft mass estimation (U.S. Patent No. 12517522). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/12517522

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