US Patent Issued to Lufthansa Technik on June 17 for "Method and computer program product for automated defect detection during borescoping of an engine" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,699, issued on June 17, was assigned to Lufthansa Technik AG (Hamburg, Germany).

"Method and computer program product for automated defect detection during borescoping of an engine" was invented by Wiebke Hubert (Hamburg, Germany), Jan Oke Peters (Hamburg, Germany), Eva Lang (Offenbach am Main, Germany), Matthias Platho (Mainz, Germany) and Alexander Appel (Woellstadt, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method automatically detects defects during borescoping of an engine. A video borescope is inserted into the engine such that, engine blades can be moved successively through the image region of the borescope. A possible defect ...