US Patent Issued to PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA on Nov. 4 for "Method and system for scanning a part by performing compensation or transformation of scanned part data" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,477, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA CORP. (Longueuil, Canada).

"Method and system for scanning a part by performing compensation or transformation of scanned part data" was invented by Philippe Morin (Beloeil, Canada) and Mizanur Rahman (Saint-Hubert, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of scanning a part, for example of an aircraft engine, using a three-dimensional (3D) scanning system includes positioning a scanning fixture adjacent to the part within a field of view of a sensor of the 3D scanning system, the scanning fixture having a plurality of markers thereon, and maintaining the scanning fix...