US Patent Issued to The Boeing on Feb. 24 for "Systems and methods for determining a location of a mobile inspection platform" (Washington Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,825, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Systems and methods for determining a location of a mobile inspection platform" was invented by James J. Troy (Issaquah, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples of the present disclosure provide localization systems and methods that detect a plurality of landmarks in scan data acquired by a scanning sensor disposed onboard a mobile inspection platform. The localization systems and methods determine, via one or more processors, centers of the landmarks based on scan points in the scan data that impinge perimeter surfaces of the landmarks, and determine a l...