ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,611, issued on June 30, was assigned to AIRBUS OPERATIONS Ltd. (Bristol, Great Britain).
"Aircraft steering angle determination" was invented by Ethan Moss (Bristol, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of determining a steering angle of an aircraft landing gear including: obtaining an image of the aircraft landing gear; performing edge detection on the image; determining, based at least in part on an edge obtained by the edge detection, a relative position of a component of the aircraft landing gear; and determining, based at least in part on the relative position of the component, the steering angle of the aircraft...