§ 06 — Record
Filings, patents,
publications, costs.
A public record of the legal proceedings, intellectual property, and research underlying the Exhaustless framework — plus the magnitude of the problem it addresses.
§ 06.1 — Deregulatory efforts
Litigation record.
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, No. 19-1158
- Exhaustless, Inc. v. FAA, 931 F.3d 1209
§ 06.2 — Patents
Issued IP.
- Airport capacity from takeoff assist
- Aircraft thrust, assembly, and methods
- Coverage of the above patents extends internationally.
- Thrust recovery in airplanes
- Integrated management of disparate data from isolated data sources — market-clearing
§ 06.3 — Publications
White papers and explainers.
§ 06.4 — Magnitude
Cost of delays.
Chronic flight congestion is a global problem. Delays in the United States alone cost society more than $41 billion each year.
Passengers
$21B
Airlines
$10B
Tourism
$5B
Lost GDP
$5B
Source: FAA's NEXTOR Total Delay Impact Study — A Comprehensive Assessment of the Costs and Impacts of Flight Delay in the United States, October 2010. The study's 2007 costs of $32.9 billion convert to 2019 costs of $41.0 billion.