US Patent Issued to The Boeing on Aug. 18 for "Integrated caul with elastomeric seals" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,709,076, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Integrated caul with elastomeric seals" was invented by Samuel Shane Brickey (Bellingham, Wash.) and Julia Karolina Slusarski (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, apparatus, and system for applying a vacuum-based pressure on an uncured composite structure. Membranes are bonded to a boundary of a caul. The membranes include positive features that define vacuum channels. The membranes are spliced to each other. The positive features that define the vacuum channels in the membranes are aligned to each other during splicing of the membranes. The membra...