US Patent Issued to The Boeing on July 7 for "Utility fixture for creating a distributed utility network" (Washington, Texas, California, Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. RE50,945, issued on July 7, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Utility fixture for creating a distributed utility network" was invented by Harinder S. Oberoi (Snohomish, Wash.), Alfredo Jose Gerosa (Mansfield, Texas), Kevin Marion Barrick (Kingston, Wash.), Quang T. Do (Renton, Wash.), Yuanxin Charles Hu (Newcastle, Wash.), Branko Sarh (Huntington Beach, Calif.), Scott Allen Mackay (Holly, Mich.) and Jeffrey Lawrence Miller (Mukilteo, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for distributing a number of utilities. The number of utilities may be coupled between a number of utility sources and a utility fixtur...