US Patent Issued to The Boeing, CAV Advanced Technologies on Oct. 21 for "Method for producing a perforated nacelle inlet assembly" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,448,151, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.) and CAV Advanced Technologies LTD (Consett, Great Britain).

"Method for producing a perforated nacelle inlet assembly" was invented by Charles William Rust (Seattle), John Alfred Weidler III (Lynnwood, Wash.) and Martin Wood (Newcastle Upon Tyne, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A perforation forming system includes a laser device and a control unit operably connected to the laser device. The control unit is configured to control the laser device to laser drill a plurality of perforations through a lipskin that has a curved contour. The lipskin includ...