US Patent Issued to The Boeing on March 3 for "Manufacturing system to form a honeycomb core and a method of forming the same" (Missouri, Washington, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,018, issued on March 3, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Manufacturing system to form a honeycomb core and a method of forming the same" was invented by Marcos Pantoja (Saint Louis, Mo.), Gwen Marie Lanphere Gross (Redmond, Wash.) and Jeffrey E. Polus (Hillsboro, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A manufacturing system to form a honeycomb core and a method of forming the same includes a sheet of fibrous material is fed into a perforation assembly. The sheet of fibrous material is perforated via the perforation assembly to form holes through the sheet of fibrous material. The sheet of fibrous material is cut to form...