US Patent Issued to AIRBUS OPERATIONS on June 3 for "Determining the position of one or more components of a landing gear assembly of an aircraft" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,319,434, issued on June 3, was assigned to AIRBUS OPERATIONS Ltd. (Bristol, Great Britain).

"Determining the position of one or more components of a landing gear assembly of an aircraft" was invented by Ting Yu Au (Bristol, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of determining the position of one or more components of a landing gear assembly of an aircraft is disclosed including scanning the one or more components with a lidar system to generate a set of position data points, each position data point comprising a set of three orthogonal position values. The position data points are partitioned into one or more clusters usin...