ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,218, issued on June 24, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).
"Detection of high curvature regions on curves" was invented by Paul Zack Thunemann (Seattle), Thomas Allen Hogan-Schmidt (Seattle) and Jeffrey David Poskin (Black Diamond, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided for detecting regions of high curvature on a curve. The method comprises receiving a curve function and automatically arc length parameterizing the curve function. The local average curvature over the arc length parameterized curve function is automatically computed. One or more regions where the local average curvature turns at least ...