US Patent Issued to Textron Innovations on Sept. 8 for "Detecting objects and distance to objects for rotorcraft rotor strike avoidance" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,499, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Textron Innovations Inc. (Providence, R.I.).

"Detecting objects and distance to objects for rotorcraft rotor strike avoidance" was invented by Jeffrey W. Holcomb (Fort Worth, Texas) and Kristen Doelling (Grapevine, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In certain embodiments, a method includes accessing image information generated by one or more image sensors configured to generate the image information for a surrounding environment of a rotorcraft. The method includes causing one or more AI models to process the image information to generate proximity information for the image information. The ...