US Patent Issued to The Boeing on Oct. 20 for "Aircraft flight control using subpixel localization" (California, Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,768,652, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Aircraft flight control using subpixel localization" was invented by Nigel David Stepp (Santa Monica, Calif.), Rongsheng Li (Menifee, Calif.), Minh Binh Nguyen (Thousand Oaks, Calif.) and Michael Robert Hooi (Tualatin, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling a movement of a vehicle is provided. An input image is received in which stars are present from a camera system for the vehicle. A subpixel probability image is generated by a machine learning model system from the input image in which the stars are present. The input image is comprised...