US Patent Issued to The Boeing on Feb. 10 for "Methods of stamp-forming fiber-reinforced thermoplastic composite assemblies and related systems" (Washington Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,993, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Methods of stamp-forming fiber-reinforced thermoplastic composite assemblies and related systems" was invented by Adriana W. Blom-Schieber (Snohomish, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Stamp-forming a composite assembly includes applying a low-melt film on an interface surface of at least one spar, loading the spar onto at least one tooling segment such that the interface surface is exposed, and heating the tooling segment to a first temperature that is above a crystallization temperature of the low-melt film and below a melt temperature of a resin of the sp...