ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,329, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to SAFRAN LANDING SYSTEMS (Velizy-Villacoublay, France).

"Method for creating a 3D digital model of one or more aircraft elements in order to produce augmented reality images" was invented by Dimitri Alain Fauron (Moissy-Cramayel, France) and Guillaume Jules Pierre Klein (Moissy-Cramayel, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method for creating a 3D digital model of at least one aircraft element in order to produce augmented reality image(s), the method including the steps of: a) scanning, at least one element of an aircraft so as to produce a set of digitised points representative of the 3-dimen...