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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 28, 2026
Filed:
Mar. 01, 2022
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Walter V. Dixon, Delanson, NY (US);
James Vradenburg Miller, Clifton Park, NY (US);
General Electric Company, Evendale, OH (US);
Abstract
Devices and methods are provided herein useful to aligning or linking together data from multiple inspections of a part. In some embodiments, the inspection methods include detecting key points on inspection data associated with the part, such as images. Key points provide the locations of features of interest on the part. Key points for the part are represented by feature descriptors. The inspection methods then link together data from two or more inspections by matching the feature descriptors and calculating a distance between matched key points. The inspection methods identify the proper alignment of inspection data from two or more inspections by identifying the alignment that achieves a minimum distance between matched key points on the inspection data. In this manner, the inspection methods align or link together inspection data from two or more different inspections to enable the comparative analysis of inspection data for a part.