US Patent Issued to The Boeing on Dec. 23 for "Method and system for transporting a workpiece in a manufacturing environment" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,502,747, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Method and system for transporting a workpiece in a manufacturing environment" was invented by Matthew B. Moore (Edmonds, Wash.) and Patrick B. Stone (Monroe, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for transporting a workpiece from an initial work cell to a subsequent work cell in a manufacturing environment having a plurality of work cells, the workpiece is supported by a support beam. The method includes monitoring the initial work cell for presence of a ready-to-move condition and monitoring the subsequent work cell for presence of a ready-to-receive ...