ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,077, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to AIRBUS OPERATIONS SAS (Toulouse, France).

"Method for estimating a residual stress field in a workpiece during machining and machining process using said method" was invented by Hugo Chabeauti (Toulouse, France), Mathieu Ritou (Carquefou, France), Guenael Germain (Angers, France), Frederic Ortmans (Toulouse, France) and Bruno Lavisse (Angers, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for estimating a residual stress field in a workpiece. The method includes measuring geometric parameters of the workpiece during machining at which a residual stress field is to be known to determine a geom...