US Patent Issued to The Boeing on Dec. 16 for "Method and system for optimizing the shape of an object to facilitate wrinkle and stress reduction" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,293, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Method and system for optimizing the shape of an object to facilitate wrinkle and stress reduction" was invented by Troy Winfree (Seattle), Eric S. Kamila (Edmonds, Wash.), William J. Moon (Bothell, Wash.) and Jerry D. Chungbin (Kenmore, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method performed by a computing system that facilitates formation of an object comprises receiving manufacturing process data associated with an object to be formed via a drape-forming operation. The computing system receives a parametric model of the object. The parametric model facilitat...