US Patent Issued to The Boeing on Aug. 4 for "Systems and methods for inspecting aircraft" (Washington, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,698,098, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Systems and methods for inspecting aircraft" was invented by Gregory James Sweers (Renton, Wash.) and Walter Joseph Jarecki (Chino Hills, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for inspecting an aircraft at a first location, includes an imaging device configured to acquire one or more images of one of or more surfaces of the aircraft at the first location. A control unit is in communication with the imaging device. The control unit is configured to receive the one or more images. A user interface is in communication with the control unit. The user interfa...