US Patent Issued to THE BOEING on April 8 for "Systems and methods for automated aircraft taxiing" (Canadian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,272,257, issued on April 8, was assigned to THE BOEING COMPANY (Arlington, Va.).

"Systems and methods for automated aircraft taxiing" was invented by Yu Sang Chik (Richmond, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aircraft includes a plurality of stereo cameras. The aircraft further includes one or more processors and one or more memory devices. The one or more memory devices store instructions that are executable by the one or more processors to perform operations including generating a three-dimensional depth map based on a plurality of outputs of the plurality of stereo cameras. The instructions include detecting one or more objects ...