US Patent Issued to The Boeing on Feb. 17 for "Method and apparatus for analyzing a composite structure" (Missouri Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,553,862, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Method and apparatus for analyzing a composite structure" was invented by Brian Patrick Justusson (Saint Peters, Mo.) and Joseph Daniel Schaefer (Richmond Heights, Mo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of analyzing a composite structure for damage tolerance. The method includes obtaining a structural configuration and determining at least one metric of interest for the structural configuration. A dent depth meta-model is developed based on the structural configuration, the at least one metric of interest, and information obtained from a machine learning a...