US Patent Issued to 3M Innovative Properties on Sept. 1 for "Methods of shimming an assembly" (Minnesota, Wisconsin, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,722,769, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to 3M Innovative Properties Co. (St. Paul, Minn.).

"Methods of shimming an assembly" was invented by Jonathan D. Zook (Stillwater, Minn.), Larry S. Hebert (Hudson, Wis.), Chris A. Praggastis (Renton, Wash.), Jacob P. Jones (St. Paul, Minn.) and Susan E. DeMoss (Stillwater, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods for making structural shims (220) for the mating assembly of parts, such as for installation between a skin (212) and substructure (214) of an aircraft. The methods include the steps of disposing a hardenable composition (216) into a gap between the first (212) and second parts (214),...