US Patent Issued to The Boeing on Aug. 4 for "Unconsolidated composite material component verification via non-contact chemical sensing" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,056, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Unconsolidated composite material component verification via non-contact chemical sensing" was invented by David Williamson Shahan (Santa Monica, Calif.), Ashley Marie Dustin (Santa Monica, Calif.), Tiffany Allison Stewart (Los Angeles), Ekaterina Stonkevitch (Thousand Oaks, Calif.), Yuksel Can Yabansu (Oak Park, 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 for verifying a material chemistry. A Fourier transform infrared scan for a section of an unconsolidated composite material i...