US Patent Issued to Rosemount Aerospace on Feb. 11 for "Aircraft door camera system for evacuation slide deployment monitoring" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,223,850, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to Rosemount Aerospace Inc. (Burnsville, Minn.).

"Aircraft door camera system for evacuation slide deployment monitoring" was invented by Joseph T. Pesik (Eagan, Minn.) and Jonathan Boer (Lakeville, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A camera with a field of view toward an external environment of an aircraft is disposed within an aircraft door such that an evacuation slide deployment path is within the field of view of the camera. A display device is disposed within an interior of the aircraft. A processor is operatively coupled to the camera and to the display device. The processor analyzes ima...