US Patent Issued to The Boeing on Dec. 9 for "Systems and methods for calculating refueling tanker boom tip 3D position for aerial refueling" (Washington, Georgia, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,979, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Systems and methods for calculating refueling tanker boom tip 3D position for aerial refueling" was invented by Haden Smith (Guyton, Ga.), Deepak Khosla (Camarillo, Calif.), Leon Nguyen (Santa Ana, Calif.), Fan Hin Hung (Los Angeles, Wash.), Justin Hatcher (Sumner, Wash.), Daniel O'Shea (Seattle), Shawn Chamberlain (Federal Way, Wash.), Luis-Alberto Santiago (Edmonds, Wash.) and Jung Soon Jang (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is methods, systems, and aircraft for performing image analysis for aiding refueling operations. A tanker a...