US Patent Issued to Rosemount Aerospace on June 24 for "Aircraft door camera system for jet bridge alignment monitoring" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,703, issued on June 24, was assigned to Rosemount Aerospace Inc. (Burnsville, Minn.).

"Aircraft door camera system for jet bridge alignment 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 a jet bridge cabin is within the field of view of the camera when the aircraft is within a docking distance of the jet bridge cabin. A display device is disposed within an interior of the aircraft. A processor is operatively coupled to the camera and to...