ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,935, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).
"Aircraft ice detection" was invented by Michael Christian Buddefeld (Hessen, Germany), Miriam Cornel (Bavaria, Germany), Stuart Cocks (Fareham, Great Britain), Millie Irene Sterling (Wiesbaden, Germany) and Andres Munoz Hernandez (Bayern, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of detecting ice on a surface of an aircraft includes obtaining a first series of images captured by one or more cameras onboard the aircraft. The method also includes performing data reduction operations to generate a second series of images. The method further includes genera...