US Patent Issued to The Boeing on Sept. 23 for "Estimation of the crystallographic texture of an alloy" (Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,422,385, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Estimation of the crystallographic texture of an alloy" was invented by Yunpeng Zhang (Brisbane, Australia), Michael C. Elford (Brisbane, Australia) and Andrew Jon Eugene Stephan (Annerley, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A modified differential evolution process including a reseed operation is performed to estimate a plurality of Euler angles indicating orientations of a specified quantity of crystals approximating the crystallographic texture extracted from the material test data, the reseed operation comprising retaining a data point at a first pl...