US Patent Issued to The Boeing on Oct. 20 for "Composite tanks for reusable launch vehicles and methods of fabricating thereof" (California, Alabama, Washington, Missouri Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,766,949, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Composite tanks for reusable launch vehicles and methods of fabricating thereof" was invented by Jonathan David Embler (Santa Ana, Calif.), John Matthew Nichols (Madison, Ala.), Glenn William Torres (Madison, Ala.), Jacob Ryan Szczudlak (Madison, Ala.), William Preston Keith (Lakewood, Calif.), Tin Anh Luu (Garden Grove, Calif.), Morgan Ashley Lewis (Huntington Beach, Calif.), Keith Charles Kreutztrager (St. Charles, Mo.), Jonathan Edward Toomey (Orange, Calif.) and Juan Carlos Guzman (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of making a composite tank f...