US Patent Issued to Aurora Flight Sciences on Oct. 27 for "Horizon detection to support an aircraft on a mission in an environment" (Massachusetts Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,774,088, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Aurora Flight Sciences Corp. (Manassas, Va.).

"Horizon detection to support an aircraft on a mission in an environment" was invented by Andrew Heafitz (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided for horizon detection. The method includes acquiring an image that depicts a view of an environment, and defining a line pattern of lines that divide the image into respective pairs of image segments. The line pattern is formed of lines that are parallel, or intersecting at a common point of intersection. The method incudes searching the lines of the line pattern to identify on...