US Patent Issued to The Boeing on Aug. 11 for "Real time inconsistency detection during composite material manufacturing" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,722, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Real time inconsistency detection during composite material manufacturing" was invented by David Williamson Shahan (Santa Monica, Calif.), Rashmi Sundareswara (Topanga, Calif.), Tiffany Allison Stewart (Los Angeles), Russell Patrick Mott (Agoura Hills, Calif.), Andrew L. Bauer (Kirkland, Wash.) and Gwen Marie Lanphere Gross (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, apparatus, system, and computer program product for detecting inconsistencies in an unconsolidated composite material. Fiber inconsistencies are detected in sections of the fibers inpu...