US Patent Issued to The Boeing on June 23 for "Transverse tensioning system and method for continuous compression molding of a stack of plies" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,829, issued on June 23, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Transverse tensioning system and method for continuous compression molding of a stack of plies" was invented by Adriana Willempje Blom-Schieber (Snohomish, Wash.) and Jack Edward Schieber (Snohomish, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a transverse tensioning system that comprises a left-side clamping assembly comprising a first left-side clamp element and a second left-side clamp element. The first left-side clamp element and the second left-side clamp element clamp down on the left edge portion of the stack of plies when the stack of plie...