ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,708, issued on April 29, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).
"Method and system for fabricating an electrical conductor on a substrate" was invented by Daniel J. Braley (St. Peters, Mo.) and Peter A. Wilson (Chesterfield, Mo.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for spraying a coating material to a substrate includes an optical sensor that monitors a thickness, a controller that generates a first signal corresponding to an amount of gas propellant to be heated, a second signal corresponding to a temperature to which the gas propellant is to be heated, a third signal corresponding to an amount of a solid powder composit...