US Patent Issued to The Boeing on May 12 for "Fastener storage" (South Korean, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,623,276, issued on May 12, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Fastener storage" was invented by Harinder Singh Oberoi (Snohomish, Wash.), Kevin Marion Barrick (Kingston, Wash.), Yuanxin Charles Hu (Newcastle, Wash.), Melissa A. Johnson (Puyallup, Wash.), Laura Carolyn Foster (Brier, Wash.), Gi Jun Hong (Pusan, South Korea), Hwangyu Shin (Gyeongsangnam-Do, South Korea) and Youngwoo Koh (Busan, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Fastener storage is presented. The fastener storage comprises a disc with a plurality of apertures through a first face of the disc and arranged in a plurality of rings concentric with the dis...