US Patent Issued to The Boeing on July 7 for "Aerial refueling systems and methods" (California, Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,675,909, issued on July 7, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Aerial refueling systems and methods" was invented by Fan Hin Hung (Los Angeles), Deepak Khosla (Camarillo, Calif.), Neale Ratzlaff (Los Angeles), Tameez Latib (Calabasas, Ga.), Haden Smith (Guyton, Ga.) and Leon Nguyen (Santa Ana, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are methods, systems, and aircraft for verifying performing automated refueling data. A method includes receiving a two-dimensional (2D) image from a camera, cropping the 2D image based on predefined feature areas of interest of a target object to produce a plurality of cropped ima...