US Patent Issued to The Boeing on Sept. 22 for "Multi-ply lamination system" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,741,459, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Multi-ply lamination system" was invented by Shuonan Dong (Seattle), Austin B. Ball (Mercer Island, Wash.), Alan Scott Locke (Federal Way, Wash.), Asher Seth Einhorn (Seattle) and Brice Aaron Johnson (Toledo, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method forms a multi-ply laminate. A first cutting system cuts and moves a first group of courses into staging positions. Placement robots pick up and place the first group of courses from the staging positions to a layup surface to form a first ply of the multi-ply laminate, changing an orientation of fibers from a...