US Patent Issued to The Boeing on July 14 for "Robotic wire insertion using connector segmentation" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,965, issued on July 14, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Robotic wire insertion using connector segmentation" was invented by Wyatt Spalding McAllister (Santa Monica, Calif.), Joshua Daniel Lampkins (Los Angeles) and Darren Michael Chan (Thousand Oaks, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for inserting a wire. An image of a connector is generated using a camera system connected to an end effector. The end effector is at a connector pose facing the connector. A region in the image encompassing the connector is selected. An initial mask is created using the image and the region. The initial mask comprises a b...