US Patent Issued to University of Washington on March 25 for "Aircraft wing motion prediction systems and associated methods" (American, Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,144, issued on March 25, was assigned to University of Washington (Seattle).

"Aircraft wing motion prediction systems and associated methods" was invented by Jinkyu Yang (Seattle), Hiromi Yasuda (Tokyo), Koshiro Yamaguchi (Seattle) and Yasuhiro Miyazawa (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, devices, and methods for tracking and/or predicting motion of a wing of an aircraft are disclosed herein. The systems, devices, and methods track wing motion (e.g., in real-time). In some embodiments, the systems and devices include stereo binocular vision (SBV) cameras and/or light detection and ranging (LIDAR) emitters and receivers ...