US Patent Issued to The Boeing on Jan. 27 for "Systems, methods, and apparatus for correlating locations of real-world objects to the digital world" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,226, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Systems, methods, and apparatus for correlating locations of real-world objects to the digital world" was invented by Robert Santoso (Arlington, Va.), Andrew Born (Arlington, Va.) and Michael Goodrow (Arlington, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A portable electronic device for obtaining information about an area of interest of an object is disclosed. The portable electronic device may include a display, an image capture device, a measurement device, and a processor. The processor may be configured to determine one or more positions of a portable electronic de...