US Patent Issued to The Boeing on May 12 for "Methods for associating test data for part under test with end item coordinate system and systems associated therewith" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,114, issued on May 12, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Methods for associating test data for part under test with end item coordinate system and systems associated therewith" was invented by Samuel R. Goertz (Issaquah, Wash.) and Barry A. Fetzer (Renton, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for associating test data for a part under test with an end item coordinate system includes acquiring scan data during a plurality of scans of at least a portion of the part of an end item along a predetermined path plan using an ultrasonic scanning device of a robot. Robot location information associated with the scan da...