US Patent Issued to The Boeing on Feb. 24 for "Gripping apparatus and associated systems and methods for gripping flexible materials" (South Carolina Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,558,799, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Gripping apparatus and associated systems and methods for gripping flexible materials" was invented by Allen Halbritter (Charleston, S.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gripping apparatus includes an impermeable layer defining a vacuum port, a first flow media layer associated with the impermeable layer, and a second flow media layer opposed from the first flow media layer to define a receiving space therebetween."

The patent was filed on Dec. 15, 2021, under Application No. 17/644,376.

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