US Patent Issued to The Boeing on April 21 for "Autoloading rivet installer with debris collection" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,605,759, issued on April 21, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Autoloading rivet installer with debris collection" was invented by Shalini Bahurudeen (Bangalore, India) and Gerald Garten (West Grove, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Tools and methods are disclosed for automatically capturing debris generated during rivet installation using an autoloading rivet gun. In some examples, an autoloading rivet installation device includes a hand-held rivet gun and an automatic loader which uses a first actuator having a shaft oriented parallel to a longitudinal plane of the rivet gun. A second actuator is coupled to the rivet...