ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,120, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Systems and methods for registering data to a coordinate system" was invented by Robert W. Grube (Edmonds, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes steps of: (1) obtaining a metrology data set and a build data set representing an article; (2) determining a surface geometry of the article in the metrology data set and the build data set; (4) selecting a metrology data subset from the metrology data set representing the surface geometry; (5) selecting a build data subset from the build data set representing the surface geometry; (6) generating a met...