US Patent Issued to ROBOXI AS on July 28 for "Object detection unit" (Norwegian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,690, issued on July 28, was assigned to ROBOXI AS (Norway).

"Object detection unit" was invented by Adrian Skibelid (Stavanger, Norway), Markus Dorheim (Stavanger, Norway), Torbjorn Bratland (Stavanger, Norway) and Filip Sund (Stavanger, Norway).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to an object detection unit for detecting the presence of foreign object debris, FOD, on a runway, taxiway or apron surface, the object detection unit comprising a processor, the object detection unit configured to: receive an image taken by a camera, the image comprising at least part of the runway surface, taxiway surface or apron...