US Patent Issued to The Boeing on July 15 for "Feature detection for automated air-to-air refueling (A3R)" (Hawaii, California, Washington, Idaho Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,585, issued on July 15, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Feature detection for automated air-to-air refueling (A3R)" was invented by Trent M. Kyono (Wailuku, Hawaii), Jacob Arthur Lucas (Makawao, Hawaii), Nicole Catherine Gagnier (Kihei, Hawaii), Justin Cleve Hatcher (Sumner, Wash.), James L. Clayton (Meridian, Idaho), Yifan Yang (Kirkland, Wash.) and Paul S. Idell (Thousand Oaks, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure provide solutions for automated air-to-air refueling (A3R) and assisted air-to-air refueling. Examples include: receiving a video frame; generating, from the video frame, a plu...