US Patent Issued to The Boeing on Sept. 15 for "Systems and methods for locally curing composite structures" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,734,771, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Systems and methods for locally curing composite structures" was invented by Jonathan Y. Ahn (Seattle), Xiaoxi Wang (Mukilteo, Wash.), Jill E. Seebergh (Seattle) and Shuonan Dong (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for locally curing a composite structure includes a constraining container including a cover and having an interior volume. The cover is configured to enclose a portion of a composite structure. The system includes a retainer configured to hold the cover against the composite structure. The system included an expandable medium configur...