US Patent Issued to THE BOEING on Oct. 21 for "Autonomous maneuver generation to mate connectors" (Hawaii, California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,810, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to THE BOEING COMPANY (Arlington, Va.).

"Autonomous maneuver generation to mate connectors" was invented by Trent M. Kyono (Wailuku, Hawaii), Jacob Arthur Lucas (Makawao, Hawaii), Nicole Catherine Gagnier (Kihei, Hawaii), Justin Cleve Hatcher (Sumner, Wash.), Yifan Yang (Kirkland, Wash.), James Lee Clayton (Everett, Wash.) and Paul S. Idell (Thousand Oaks, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes providing an image to a feature extraction model to generate feature data. The image depicts a portion of a first device and a portion of a second device. The feature data includes coordina...