US Patent Issued to Lockheed Martin on Nov. 3 for "System and method to initiate foreign object debris (FOD) removal procedures" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,784,186, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Lockheed Martin Corp. (Bethesda, Md.).

"System and method to initiate foreign object debris (FOD) removal procedures" was invented by Jean-Pierre Njock II (Fort Worth, Texas), Alexander McLean Tramm (Fort Worth, Texas) and Andrew C. Rebeck (Fort Worth, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system comprises a sensor communicatively coupled to a processor. The processor is configured to obtain an image data stream from the sensor, determine baseline information from the image data stream, determine that the baseline information comprises the expected content within a threshold tolerance, flag the ...