US Patent Issued to THE BOEING on Aug. 26 for "Combining multiple ergonomic risk factors in a single predictive finite element model" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,396,795, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to THE BOEING COMPANY (Arlington, Va.).

"Combining multiple ergonomic risk factors in a single predictive finite element model" was invented by Liisa Charlie Hammer (Seattle), Karen C. Takatani (Renton, Wash.), Kevin F. Malik (Seattle), Geoffrey A. Butler (Seattle) and Robert Courdji (Everett, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for modeling soft tissue includes receiving one or more images showing an anatomical geometry of a first subject. The anatomical geometry includes a soft tissue. The method also includes measuring a plurality of parameters of the anatomical geometry of the first ...