ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,394,263, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).
"Analytical digital twin for nondestructive inspection of a vehicle" was invented by Mathew A. Coffman (Weldon Spring, Mo.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for non-destructive testing (NDT) a surface of a vehicle includes a track that is securable to the surface, and a sensor that is movable along the track to perform a scan of a region of the surface. The system also includes a computer to generate a baseline image of the surface from the scan, and define a map of the surface from a computer model of the surface. The baseline image includes a matrix of b...