US Patent Issued to The Boeing on Feb. 11 for "Robotic drill system and method of drilling with a robotic drill system" (Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,220,751, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Chicago).

"Robotic drill system and method of drilling with a robotic drill system" was invented by Jason John Cochrane (Melbourne, Australia), Leng Benjamin Vongchanh (Melbourne, Australia) and Ashkan Amirsadri (Melbourne, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robotic drill system and a method of drilling with a robotic drill system. This includes inserting a tool head of the robotic drill within a hole of a drill template along an initial insertion trajectory with a robotic manipulator arm that is moved by at least one robotic actuator for causing robotic insertion of the...