US Patent Issued to The Boeing on March 3 for "Real time contaminants identification during composite material manufacturing via non-contact chemical sensing" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,132, issued on March 3, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Real time contaminants identification during composite material manufacturing via non-contact chemical sensing" was invented by David Williamson Shahan (Santa Monica, Calif.), Ashley Marie Dustin (Santa Monica, Calif.), Tiffany Allison Stewart (Los Angeles), Russell Patrick Mott (Agoura Hills, Calif.), Yuksel Can Yabansu (Oak Park, Calif.), Andrew L. Bauer (Kirkland, Wash.) and Gwen Marie Lanphere Gross (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for detecting a contaminant. A Fourier transform infrared scan for a section of the unconsolidated compo...