ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,504, issued on July 28, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).

"Inspection systems and methods for determining matches between sets of images of rotary parts" was invented by Walter V. Dixon (Delanson, N.Y.) and James Vradenburg Miller (Clifton Park, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices and methods are provided herein useful to aligning or linking together data from multiple inspections of a part. In some embodiments, the inspection methods include detecting key points on inspection data associated with the part, such as images. Key points provide the locations of features of interest on the part. Key points fo...