ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,668,038, issued on June 30, was assigned to THE BOEING COMPANY (Arlington, Va.).
"Sphere-based structural core layer and method for use in aircraft" was invented by Vinodh Kumar Sekar (Hosur, India), Priyadarsh Sudarsanan Jamini (Thiruvananthapuram, India), Ram Ji Omar (Banda, India), Rajalakshmi Ramalingam (Chennai, India) and James John (Bangalore, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Present aspects are directed to a panel assembly comprising a reinforcing core that can be incorporated into a structural panel assembly, with the panel assembly comprising a reinforcing core having a plurality of substantially identically-dimensioned hol...