US Patent Issued to Airbus Operations on Sept. 8 for "System for scanning or inspecting an aircraft or spacecraft surface" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,729,016, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Airbus Operations GmbH (Hamburg, Germany).

"System for scanning or inspecting an aircraft or spacecraft surface" was invented by Robert Alexander Goehlich (Hamburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for scanning or inspecting an aircraft or spacecraft surface. A ground vehicle has a first inspection device, a hovering platform has a second inspection device. The first inspection device is on a first arm of the ground vehicle. The ground vehicle comprises a vertical pole and a transverse holding element extends therefrom. The hovering platform is electrically connected to the groun...