ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,638, issued on May 20, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).
"Methods and scan systems for analyzing an object" was invented by Barry Fetzer (Renton, Wash.), Hong Hue Tat (Redmond, Wash.) and Baljinder Singh (Renton, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and scan systems for analyzing an object. The methods include obtaining a local operation dataset that includes a plurality of operation data points obtained from an object and a corresponding location, within the operation coordinate system, for each operation data point of the plurality of operation data points. The methods also include mapping the plurality of op...