US Patent Issued to United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force on June 30 for "Method of disposing an aircraft workpiece on a stand by positioning in each of the vertical, longitudinal and transverse directions" (Oklahoma Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,668,377, issued on June 30, was assigned to United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio).

"Method of disposing an aircraft workpiece on a stand by positioning in each of the vertical, longitudinal and transverse directions" was invented by Kimberly Wilkerson (Midwest City, Okla.), Juan Soto (Oklahoma City) and Casey Johnson (Oklahoma City).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of positioning an aircraft workpiece for maintenance. The method has the steps of: providing a stand for holding at least one aircraft workpiece during maintenance, the stand has a pair of longitudinally sp...