US Patent Issued to The Boeing on June 23 for "Boom guidance system for automated air-to-air refueling" (Washington Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,253, issued on June 23, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Boom guidance system for automated air-to-air refueling" was invented by Jung Soon Jang (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A boom control system includes sensors that output sensor data indicative of a three-dimensional (3D) position of a receiver aircraft and a refueling boom in respective reference frames. An electronic control unit (ECU) reads a 3D model of the receiver from memory. The sensor data includes a 3D position of the receiver and boom in respective reference frames. The ECU maps points in the receiver reference frame to the boom refer...