US Patent Issued to The Boeing on Sept. 8 for "Grommet installation tool" (Missouri Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,511, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Grommet installation tool" was invented by Brian Burton Mayfield (Maryland Heights, Mo.) and Travis Arthur Roth (Florissant, Mo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A grommet installation tool and methods using the installation tool for installing grommets. The grommet installation tool includes a hydraulic puller. An anvil is removably coupled to the hydraulic puller, the anvil including a proximal anvil end, a distal anvil end, and an anvil conduit that extends from the proximal anvil end to the distal anvil end, wherein the proximal anvil end is removably connect...