US Patent Issued to The Boeing on June 30 for "System and method of inspecting a surface" (Washington, Missouri Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,444, issued on June 30, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"System and method of inspecting a surface" was invented by Veniamin Stryzheus (Kent, Wash.), Shereef Shehab (Seattle), Naman Shah (Seattle) and William Talion Edwards (Wentzville, Mo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surface inspection system for inspecting an inspection surface includes a three-dimensional (3D) scanner configured to scan the inspection surface and acquire a point cloud of points representing at least the localized portion. The localized portion includes a non-defective region and a suspect region at least partially surrounded by the non-defect...