ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,562,253, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to THE BOEING COMPANY (Arlington, Va.).

"Soft tissue material cumulative damage model for reducing repetitive stress injuries in performing a process" was invented by Liisa Charlie Hammer (Seattle), James Dean Cotton (Issaquah, Wash.), Richard Jay Gardner (Brier, Wash.) and Karen Chiyono Takatani (Renton, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for reducing repetitive stress injuries to soft tissue in performing a process are disclosed. The techniques include obtaining at least one repetitive stress data set related to the soft tissue and to the process; accessing information characterizin...