US Patent Issued to The Boeing on June 30 for "Systems, apparatuses, and methods for inspecting inner surfaces of holes using pixel-intensity analysis" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,580, issued on June 30, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Systems, apparatuses, and methods for inspecting inner surfaces of holes using pixel-intensity analysis" was invented by Andreas Bartl (Munich), Seth A. Yakel (Seattle) and Kwok Tung Chan (Mercer Island, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inspection system includes a scanner and a computing device. The scanner is configured to scan an inner surface of a hole in an object. The scanner is configured to generate a plurality of images. Each one of the images represents one of a plurality of sections of the inner surface of the hole. The computing device is cou...