US Patent Issued to Oshkosh AeroTech on March 18 for "Artificial intelligence techniques for autonomous operation of passenger boarding bridges" (Texas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,268, issued on March 18, was assigned to Oshkosh AeroTech LLC (Oshkosh, Wis.).

"Artificial intelligence techniques for autonomous operation of passenger boarding bridges" was invented by Stephen C. Tatton (Spring, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some embodiments, a computer-implemented method of controlling autonomous movement of a mobile object in an aircraft operating area is provided. An autonomous control computing system receives an image from a digital camera positioned to view at least a portion of the mobile object. The autonomous control computing system provides the image to a machine learning model to detect withi...