ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,304,654, issued on May 20, was assigned to GOODRICH Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Systems and methods for identifying damage and theft in an aircraft cargo bay" was invented by Nitin Kumar Goyal (Bangalore, India), Ashutosh Kumar Jha (Bangalore, India) and Mahesh Ainapure (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for monitoring an aircraft cargo bay using an aircraft interface device may comprise receiving image data of a cargo bay of an aircraft. The method may further comprise detecting movement in the cargo bay, directing a camera to activate in response to that movement, and processing the captured image data. The aircraf...