US Patent Issued to The Boeing on April 14 for "Systems and methods for detecting foreign object debris within a structure" (Saudi Arabia, Australian, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,692, issued on April 14, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Systems and methods for detecting foreign object debris within a structure" was invented by Amani Alonazi (Jeddah, Saudi Arabia), Seema Chopra (Karnataka, India) and Martin Szarski (Brighton East, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and a method for detecting foreign object debris in relation to a structure include a probe configured to move in relation to the structure. The probe includes a hyperspectral imaging device configured to acquire hyperspectral image data of one or more portions of the structure. A control unit is in communication wit...