US Patent Issued to Spirit AeroSystems on Sept. 23 for "System and method for drilling holes and installing fasteners in vehicle structures" (Kansas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,330, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Spirit AeroSystems Inc. (Wichita, Kan.).

"System and method for drilling holes and installing fasteners in vehicle structures" was invented by Todd B. Jaramillo (Wichita, Kan.), John Robert Dye III (Wichita, Kan.) and Kaelan Cordell Roberts (Wichita, Kan.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for drilling a hole in a vehicle structure and installing a fastener in the hole. A drill plate having openings and associated machine-readable elements is positioned on the structure. A drill gun is positioned in a particular opening and reads hole information from the associated element, a...