US Patent Issued to The Boeing on July 28 for "Automated foreign object debris detection system using generative AI" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,991, issued on July 28, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Automated foreign object debris detection system using generative AI" was invented by Lakshmi Ethirajan (Bangalore, India), Manoj Nath (Bangalore, India) and Sarin Kumar Thayyilsubramanian (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Detecting foreign object debris (FOD) is provided. The method comprises receiving images captured by a number of imaging devices in a defined inspection area. A generative artificial intelligence (AI) model generates a natural language text caption describing the images. A text classifier AI model classifies FOD in the images b...