ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,439, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to AEROSPACE INDUSTRIAL SCAN LTD. (Modi'in Maccabim-Reut, Israel).

"Jet blades optical inspection" was invented by Lior Greenstein (Tel Aviv, Israel), Gilad A. Davara (Rehovot, Israel), Roni Tzubery (Modi'in, Israel), Jacob Bortman (Rehovot, Israel), Vadim Leiderman (Modi'in, Israel) and Alon Modan Dumanis (Modi'in Maccabim-Reut, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for inspecting a jet blade including: a jet blade support assembly including: a sub-frame, a gripper support rotatably coupled to the sub-frame and being tiltable about a tilting axis, and a light transmissive jet blade gri...