ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,512, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Airbus Operations GmbH (Hamburg, Germany).
"System and method for inspecting a surface of an aircraft or spacecraft" was invented by Robert Alexander Goehlich (Hamburg, Germany), Clara Hauser (Hamburg, Germany) and Michel Badker (Hamburg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for checking an aircraft or spacecraft surface structure includes a ground vehicle having a drive, a manipulator arranged on the ground vehicle, having multiple movement links articulately arranged relative to one another, an inspection device arranged on the manipulator, proximity sensors, and a control unit. Th...