ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,456,170, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).
"Inspection system and method" was invented by Veniamin Stryzheus (Kent, Wash.) and Matthew J. Chen (Seattle).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inspection system for capturing a topography of a surface includes a support frame configured to be positioned over the surface, at least three light sources configured to be mounted at different locations on the support frame, and at least two cameras each having a viewing direction and configured to be mounted at different locations on the support frame in a manner such that the viewing direction of each camera points g...