Airbus was granted a patent for aircraft landing-gear position monitoring.

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    "uspto_assignee": "AIRBUS OPERATIONS LIMITED",
    "patent_abstract": "A computer-implemented method of determining a position of a component of an aircraft landing gear assembly. The method includes obtaining an image of the aircraft landing gear assembly; determining a region of interest within the image, the region of interest contains the component of the aircraft landing gear assembly; calculating a coordinate of a centroid of the bounding box and comparing the coordinate of the centroid to a corresponding predetermined threshold coordinate to determine the position of the component of the aircraft landing gear assembly.",
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