US Patent Issued to AIRBUS OPERATIONS on June 3 for "Determining the steering angle of a landing gear assembly of an aircraft" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,319,433, issued on June 3, was assigned to AIRBUS OPERATIONS Ltd. (Bristol, Great Britain).

"Determining the steering angle 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 steering angle of a landing gear assembly of an aircraft is disclosed including scanning the landing gear assembly with a lidar system to generate a set of three-dimensional position data points, each position data point including a set of three orthogonal position values. A two-dimensional image from the set of three-dimensional position data points, by converting a...