ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,770,241, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).
"Cable wire insertion depth monitoring" was invented by Darren Chan (Thousand Oaks, Calif.), Michael Cui (Woodland Hills, Calif.), Sachiko Matsumoto (San Diego) and Bradley J. Mitchell (Snohomish, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for cable wire insertion monitoring includes receiving, from a camera system, an inspection image of a connector housing held in a housing retainer of a housing inspection system. Insertion of a cable wire into a corresponding cable cavity of the connector housing is detected via an insertion monitoring machine vision syste...