US Patent Issued to The Boeing on Jan. 28 for "Controlling spring back of a sheet of material following machining operations" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,208,453, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Chicago).

"Controlling spring back of a sheet of material following machining operations" was invented by Garth Tristan Irvine (Winnipeg, Canada), Claudio Zubin (Winnipeg, Canada) and Darren G. Mitchell (LaSalle, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A machining system configured to reduce spring back following machining operations comprising a machining tool and a spring back control system. The spring back control system comprises a number of force generators and a number of force loaded members coupled to the number of force generators, each force loaded member of the number ...