ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,905, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to AIRBUS OPERATIONS Ltd. (Bristol, Great Britain).
"Aircraft steering angle determination" was invented by Ethan Moss (Bristol, Great Britain) and Ting Yu Au (Bristol, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method of determining a steering angle of an aircraft landing gear including: obtaining an input image of the aircraft landing gear; comparing the input image against a plurality of reference images, the plurality of reference images comprising images of the aircraft landing gear at known steering angles; determining a most similar reference image, the most similar...