US Patent Issued to The Boeing on Aug. 4 for "Processing of composites with partial plies" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,697,790, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Processing of composites with partial plies" was invented by John F. Spalding (Renton, Wash.), Marc R. Matsen (Seattle) and Gwendolyn Marie Janda (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods of forming a composite structure from a preform with a vent are presented. A preform comprises a plurality of sets of full length plies, a plurality of sets of partial plies alternating with the plurality of sets of full length plies, and a vent extending through the plurality of sets of partial plies."

The patent was filed on Feb. 9, 2023, under Application No. 18/166,92...