Patents by Inventor Gerald Nightingale

Gerald Nightingale has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Method and apparatus for finding anomalies in finished parts and/or assemblies
    Publication number: 20070160282
    Abstract: A method for non-destructive examination of parts includes producing a 3-D image of a sample of a part, extracting a point cloud of the image of the sample of the part, and registering the point cloud to a CAD coordinate system. The method further includes determining points in the point cloud of the image that are more than a specified distance from surfaces on a CAD 3-D model of the part using the same coordinate system, and utilizing the determined points to determine the presence of anomalies or present an image of anomalies in the sample of the part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2006
    Publication date: July 12, 2007
    Inventors: Gerald Nightingale, Francis Little, John Janning