US Patent Issued to The Boeing on Sept. 2 for "Methods and apparatus for determinant assembly support" (Illinois, Missouri Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,404,040, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Methods and apparatus for determinant assembly support" was invented by Chester James Hill IV (Grafton, Ill.), Jason Layne Collins (St. Peters, Mo.), Gregg Joseph Zeisler Jr. (St. Charles, Mo.), Blake Carl Kohlmeyer (Ballwin, Mo.) and Nabil Saleh (St. Louis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus for determinant assembly support are disclosed. A disclosed example apparatus to support a panel component for determinant assembly thereof includes a support frame that is releasably couplable to a jig, a first clamp to support the panel component at a fi...