ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,747,031, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to AIRBUS OPERATIONS Ltd. (Bristol, Great Britain).

"Determining a position of a component of an aircraft landing gear assembly" was invented by 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 position of a component of an aircraft landing gear assembly. The method includes obtaining an image of the aircraft landing gear assembly; determining a region of interest within the image, the region of interest contains the component of the aircraft landing gear assembly; calculating a coordinate of a centroid of the bounding box and compa...