US Patent Issued to The Boeing on Aug. 25 for "Aviation document target area extraction system and method" (Wisconsin, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,396, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Aviation document target area extraction system and method" was invented by Claire Carol Knutson (Chetek, Wis.), Yazan Firas Abughazaleh (Austin, Texas) and Mark E. Jeffcoat (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and a method are described for extracting a target area of an aviation document. The system and method include inputting the aviation document to an image segmentation model. The aviation document includes a target area of interest that is shown to scale. The image segmentation model generates a first output that provides a predicted lo...