US Patent Issued to Near Earth Autonomy on Sept. 9 for "Vehicles, systems, and methods for the autonomous inspection of objects" (Pennsylvania Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,952, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Near Earth Autonomy Inc. (Pittsburgh).

"Vehicles, systems, and methods for the autonomous inspection of objects" was invented by Vladimir Brajovic (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle autonomously inspects an object within an environment. The vehicle includes an inspection sensor, a localization sensor, and a computing system. The localization sensor can detect three-dimensional surfaces within the environment. The inspection sensor can characterize the object. The computing system includes a memory configured to store a three-dimensional model of the object and predetermined i...