US Patent Issued to THE BOEING on Dec. 23 for "Systems and method to determine connection of a boom with a receiver aircraft" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,503,250, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to THE BOEING COMPANY (Arlington, Va.).

"Systems and method to determine connection of a boom with a receiver aircraft" was invented by Jung Soon Jang (Bellevue, Wash.) and Justin Cleve Hatcher (Sumner, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for determining the connection status of a boom of a tanker aircraft with a receiver aircraft. The detection utilizes sensors mounted on the boom. Signals from the sensors are converted from a time domain to a frequency domain. Modes within the frequency domain are identified and analyzed to determine the connection status of the boom with th...