ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,789, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Nesting methods and computer-controlled machine tools for cutting objects from a workpiece" was invented by Aravindan Krishnan (Bangalore, India), Nayan Maiti (West Bengal, India), Daamini Visaalaakshi (Bangalore, India), Kishora Shetty (Bangalore, India), Sijo Varghese (Bangalore, India), Jeffrey D. Poskin (Black Diamond, Wash.), Sharon F. Arroyo (Sammamish, Wash.) and Gunnar C. Grosenick (Kirkland, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Nesting methods and computer-controlled machine tools for cutting one or more objects from a workpiece. The nesting methods ai...