US Patent Issued to Blue Origin Manufacturing on Nov. 3 for "System and technique for fabricating a three-dimensional composite structure" (Washington, Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,779,778, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Blue Origin Manufacturing LLC (Huntsville, Ala.).

"System and technique for fabricating a three-dimensional composite structure" was invented by Eric David Wetzel (Seattle, Ore.) and Nathan Darrel Staley (Enumclaw, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques and systems are used to fabricate relatively large composite structures. Fabrication may be performed automatically by a system comprising a relatively large robotic structure configured to hold and to operate various interchangeable end effectors, each having respective functions for fabricating composite structures. The end effector is ...