US Patent Issued to Airbus Operations on Sept. 30 for "Method and system for detecting characteristics of a surface portion on an aircraft" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,460, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Airbus Operations GmbH (Hamburg, Germany).

"Method and system for detecting characteristics of a surface portion on an aircraft" was invented by Misha Kappelhoff (Jork, Germany), Pia Bottcher (Constance, Germany), Paul Ehrhardt (Constance, Germany) and Julian Sutor (Constance, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for detecting aircraft surface portion characteristics including applying a marking sticker with grid markings adjacent to the aircraft surface portion, simultaneously optically detecting one region of the marking sticker and one region of the surface portion via an optica...