US Patent Issued to NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS on Sept. 8 for "Material support systems, material support structures, and related methods" (Utah Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,490, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS Corp. (Falls Church, Va.).

"Material support systems, material support structures, and related methods" was invented by David R. Machac (Ogden, Utah), Joel L. Robison (Roy, Utah) and Mary A. White (Salt Lake City).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A core support system includes a support structure. The support structure includes a frame and a support member having a saturatable engagement layer disposed over the frame. A method of machining a core material incudes applying a fluid to an engagement layer of a support structure and saturating the engagement layer with the flu...