ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,618,429, issued on May 5, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).
"Eccentric bolt for attaching mission pod to aircraft" was invented by Thomas J. Harleman (Maple Valley, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for eccentric bolt. One embodiment is an eccentric bolt to secure a clevis and lug fitting. The eccentric bolt includes a head and a shank. The shank includes multiple shank sections that successively decrease in diameter in an axial direction from the head toward a tail end of the shank. One of the shank sections is an eccentric shank section that is off-center with respect to a center axis of...