US Patent Issued to The Boeing on Oct. 21 for "Methods and systems for inspecting components" (Missouri, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,885, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Chicago).

"Methods and systems for inspecting components" was invented by Peter G. Rhodes (Berkeley, Mo.), Eric L. Nicks (Berkeley, Mo.), Liessman E. Sturlaugson (Berkeley, Mo.) and Ali K. Babool (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes training a model to identify anomalous portions of a test component using training images and labels that indicate anomalous portions of training components within the training images. The method also includes compressing a source image of the test component to generate a first input image having a first resolution and making a f...