US Patent Issued to The Boeing on April 29 for "System and method of controlling the circumference of a pressure tank mounted within a vacuum tank" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,065, issued on April 29, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"System and method of controlling the circumference of a pressure tank mounted within a vacuum tank" was invented by Robert E. Grip (Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif.) and Aaron J. Kutzmann (Long Beach, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tank system includes a vacuum tank having a vacuum tank skin, and a pressure tank mounted within the vacuum tank having one or more pressure tank skin segments having a total circumference that is less than that of a complete circle, resulting in one or more longitudinal gaps respectively between the one or more pressure tank ski...