US Patent Issued to The Boeing on Oct. 27 for "Systems and methods for fabricating double-contoured shims" (South Carolina Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,775,264, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Systems and methods for fabricating double-contoured shims" was invented by Christopher A. Greer (Greenwood, S.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for fabricating a double-contoured shim includes a model generator and a manufacturing system. The model generator generates a shim model to fill a gap between a first mating-surface and a second mating-surface. The model generator generates a virtual plane that divides the shim model into a first shim model and a second shim model. A first shim is fabricated based on the first shim model. The first shim inclu...