US Patent Issued to The Boeing on Nov. 3 for "Aerial refueling systems and methods" (California, Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,780,442, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Aerial refueling systems and methods" was invented by Fan Hin Hung (Los Angeles), Leon Nguyen (Santa Ana, Calif.), Haden Smith (Guyton, Ga.), Deepak Khosla (Camarillo, Calif.) and Neale Ratzlaff (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are methods, systems, and aircraft for verifying performing automated refueling data. A method includes receiving a two-dimensional (2D) image from a camera, determining 2D keypoints of a target object located within the 2D image based on a predefined model of the target object, estimating a 6DOF pose based on t...