US Patent Issued to The Boeing on April 22 for "Digital twin generation and logging for a vehicle" (German, Null, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,283,136, issued on April 22, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Chicago).

"Digital twin generation and logging for a vehicle" was invented by Michael J. Browne (Untersiggenthal, Switzerland), Andre Lutz (Erzhausen, Germany), Hilna Sahle (Darmstadt, Germany), Andreas Godehart (Dreieichenhain, Germany) and Mirza Maznikar (Shtip, F.Y.R.O.M.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure generates a digital twin of the interior of a vehicle to initiate and track maintenance issues. In one aspect, the digital twin is formed using multiple captured images of the interior of the vehicle where multiple components in those images are identifie...