US Patent Issued to Blue Origin Manufacturing on May 27 for "Rocket tank liquid level determination, and associated systems and methods" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,025, issued on May 27, was assigned to Blue Origin Manufacturing LLC (Huntsville, Ala.).

"Rocket tank liquid level determination, and associated systems and methods" was invented by Frederick W. Boelitz (Sammamish, Wash.) and Richard D. Jones (Kent, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Rocket tank liquid level determination, and associated systems and methods. A representative system includes a computer-readable medium having instructions that, when executed, receive an image corresponding to a view of the liquid in the rocket tank, identify an edge between the liquid and a wall of the tank, and, based on at least one of a size, shap...