US Patent Issued to The Boeing on Sept. 8 for "Systems and methods for calculating refueling tanker boom 3D position for aerial refueling" (California, Washington, Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,729,010, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Systems and methods for calculating refueling tanker boom 3D position for aerial refueling" was invented by Fan Hin Hung (Los Angeles), Deepak Khosla (Camarillo, Calif.), Shawn Chamberlain (Federal Way, Wash.), Daniel O'Shea (Seattle), Neale Ratzlaff (Los Angeles), Tameez Latib (Calabasas, Calif.), Haden Smith (Guyton, Ga.) and Leon Nguyen (Santa Ana, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is methods, systems, and aircraft for performing image analysis for aiding refueling operations. A tanker aircraft includes a camera, a refueling boom, a came...