ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,754,546, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).
"Gas turbine engine drone inspection system" was invented by Bradley C. Schafer (Ellington, Conn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes at least one drone that is equipped with an imaging device and a light source. At least one processor is configured to: operate the at least one drone to fly into a gas turbine engine to a first position with respect to a component in the gas turbine engine, operate the imaging device and the light source to take an image a target surface of the component from the first position, identify whether the image includes an obs...