US Patent Issued to NORTHROPGRUMMAN SYSTEMS on Sept. 1 for "Methods of forming a composite structure and associated automated manufacturing systems and components" (Utah Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,722,348, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to NORTHROPGRUMMAN SYSTEMS Corp. (Falls Church, Va.).

"Methods of forming a composite structure and associated automated manufacturing systems and components" was invented by Christopher J. Madsen (Layton, Utah), Barrett B. Milenski (Salt Lake City) and Christopher Palmer (Syracuse, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for manufacturing a composite structure includes receiving measurements of properties of a composite sheet. The method further includes receiving historical properties of previous composite structures. The method also includes determining a number of composite plies for each...