ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,986, issued on March 17, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Mobile wiring harness anomaly detection system" was invented by John Jian Dong (Mukilteo, Wash.), Kevin Kuang-Hui Tseng (Lynnwood, Wash.) and Naveed Moayyed Hussain (Palos Verdes Peninsula, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aerospace wiring harness inspection system comprises a mobile personal computing device; a camera system connected to the mobile personal computing device, a machine learning model running in the mobile personal computing device; and a controller. The machine learning model is trained to detect anomalies in a set of images of a wiri...