US Patent Issued to The Boeing on Dec. 30 for "System and method for measuring a bulb diameter of an installed one-sided fastener in a structure" (German, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,772, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"System and method for measuring a bulb diameter of an installed one-sided fastener in a structure" was invented by Martin Brak (Hamburg, Germany), Nicholas Chin Reasoner (Lake Forest Park, Wash.), Andrei Draghici (Hamburg, Germany), Philipp Farber (Hamburg, Germany) and Sven Rasche (Hamburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a system for measuring a bulb diameter of an installed one-sided fastener in a structure. The system includes the structure and the installed one-sided fastener installed through a hole in the structure. The installed...