ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,037, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).
"Creating synthetic data for composite inspection" was invented by Sayata Ghose (Sammamish, Wash.), Troy Winfree (Seattle), Tyler Holmes (Seattle), Brandon Poe (Lynnwood, Wash.) and Kristin L. Shaffer (Mukilteo, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of generating synthetic data for composite manufacturing inspection comprising creating a three-dimensional model of a composite layup; generating an inconsistency in the three-dimensional model of the composite layup; setting a camera position and a camera orientation in the three-dimensional model space; ge...