US Patent Issued to The Boeing on Feb. 17 for "Methods for fabrication of layups for composite honeycomb core sandwich structures and said composite honeycomb core sandwich structures" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,110, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Methods for fabrication of layups for composite honeycomb core sandwich structures and said composite honeycomb core sandwich structures" was invented by Kevin L. Robbins (Winnipeg, Canada) and Marc G. Storozuk (West St. Paul, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for fabrication of a layup for a composite honeycomb core sandwich structure includes laying up a first plurality of unidirectional tows over a tool for layup of the composite honeycomb core sandwich structure using an automated fiber placement process to form a stack of under-core composite ...