US Patent Issued to The Boeing on Sept. 15 for "Apparatus and methods for assembling structures" (Missouri, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,735,131, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Apparatus and methods for assembling structures" was invented by Brent A. Beach (St. Louis), Chester James Hill IV (Grafton, Ill.), Jesse Daniel Tihen (St. Charles, Mo.) and Gregg Joseph Zeisler Jr. (St Charles, Mo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, apparatus, articles of manufacture, and methods to assemble structures are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a plate with a datum feature and a bracket coupled to the plate. The bracket includes an indexing feature, the indexing feature positioned and oriented relative to the datum feature, the indexi...