US Patent Issued to The Boeing on Dec. 30 for "Indexing for airframes undergoing pulsed-line assembly" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,509,247, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Indexing for airframes undergoing pulsed-line assembly" was invented by Daniel R. Smith (Woodinville, Wash.), Darrell D. Jones (Mill Creek, Wash.) and Frederick M. Swanstrom (Normandy Park, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for assembling a structure. The systems and method including micro pulsing a structure along a track in a process direction by less than a length of the structure. The structure is indexed to one or more work stations by mating indexing features in a manufacturing excess of the structure to complementary f...