US Patent Issued to The Boeing on March 17 for "Apparatus and method for printing a contoured surface" (Pennsylvania, Missouri, South Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,507, issued on March 17, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Apparatus and method for printing a contoured surface" was invented by Luke C. Ingram (Summerville, S.C.), Anthony W. Baker (Gilbertsville, Pa.) and Steven A. Dorris (Willard, Mo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a livery printing system and a method of generating a control path. The system includes a training system having a processor and a memory with code configured to cause the processor to receive a 3D digital model associated with an object; generate simulated control paths, based on the 3D digital model, for actuators of a printing de...