US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on June 23 for "Injection molding stitching for structural reinforcement" (American, Mexican, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,830, issued on June 23, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Injection molding stitching for structural reinforcement" was invented by Jennifer M. Hatfield (Portland, Ore.), Sarbajit Kumar Rakshit (Kolkata, India), Carolina Garcia Delgado (Zapopan, Mexico) and Randy A. Rendahl (Raleigh, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for repairing a structural defect includes determining a size and position of a defect within a structural element and, in accordance with a structural analysis of the defect, determining a stitching pattern that counters loss of structural integrity du...