ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,292,077, issued on May 6, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).
"Adhesive bonding of beam and node assemblies" was invented by Todd H Smith (Almont, Mich.), Joshua Solomon (Berkley, Mich.), Ethan Edward Peel Hodge (Clawson, Mich.) and Joel S Hooton (Chesterfield, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An assembly and a method are provided for manufacturing a joined assembly. A method for manufacturing includes fitting together and datuming a beam and a node, wherein at least one of the beam and the node is formed with an aperture, and wherein a cylindrical interface is formed between the beam and node. Further, the...