US Patent Issued to Airbus Operations on July 21 for "Determining a configuration status of a component of a landing gear assembly of an aircraft" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,503, issued on July 21, was assigned to Airbus Operations Ltd. (Bristol, Great Britain).

"Determining a configuration status of a component of a landing gear assembly of an aircraft" was invented by Ting Yu Au (Bristol, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of determining configuration status of a component of an aircraft landing gear assembly. The component with a lidar system is scanned to generate a set of position data points. A subset of the position data points is determined, the subset having position data points corresponding to positions in a predetermined region of the landing gear assembly, the predetermine...