US Patent Issued to ROBOXI AS on Aug. 18 for "Vehicle for, and a method of, detecting foreign object debris disposed on a runway or taxiway" (Norwegian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,711,780, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to ROBOXI AS (Norway).

"Vehicle for, and a method of, detecting foreign object debris disposed on a runway or taxiway" was invented by Adrian Skibelid (Stavanger, Norway), Markus Dorheim (Stavanger, Norway) and Torbjorn Bratland (Stavanger, Norway).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle for detecting foreign object debris (FOD) disposed on a runway or taxiway, the vehicle comprising an array of forward-facing cameras configured to capture images of the runway or taxiway and transmit the images to FOD detection circuitry, each forwarding-facing camera being a camera oriented such that a respective...