ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,354, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to AIRBUS OPERATIONS Ltd. (Bristol, Great Britain).
"Autonomous mobile aircraft inspection system" was invented by Amer Liaqat (Bristol, Great Britain), Lloyd Tinkler (Bristol, Great Britain) and Philip Yates (Bristol, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An autonomous inspection system including at least one autonomous mobile robot. The robot has two-dimensional LiDAR scanners each having a two-dimensional scanning plane. The scanners are mounted on the autonomous mobile robot with scanning plane orientations which are non-coplanar. A processor includes an input to receive point data from...