US Patent Issued to The Boeing on Sept. 29 for "Radial forging for the manufacture of ball screw actuator shafts" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,746,593, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Radial forging for the manufacture of ball screw actuator shafts" was invented by Mykola Kulakov (East Dunbartonshire, Great Britain) and David Milliken (Sheffield, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods are presented for the manufacture of tubular components having complex geometries. An exemplary method includes performing three radial forging operations on a workpiece that includes a bore along a longitudinal axis extending from a first end to a second end opposite the first end. The first radial forging operation includes holding the workpie...