US Patent Issued to The Boeing on Sept. 23 for "Composite repair components with customizable shims" (South Carolina, California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,954, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Composite repair components with customizable shims" was invented by Remmelt A. Staal (Irvine, Calif.), Arne K. Lewis (Auburn, Wash.) and Justin H. Register (Charleston, S.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides repair systems, repair components, and methods for repairing composite structure systems using a set number of prefabricated repair components including a repair component and various shims which are fabricated to repair multiple composite members in a composite structure system."

The patent was filed on April 12, 2023, unde...