US Patent Issued to THE BOEING on July 1 for "System and method to adjust extension lengths of slats of a work platform relative to a workpiece" (South Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,343,832, issued on July 1, was assigned to THE BOEING COMPANY (Arlington, Va.).

"System and method to adjust extension lengths of slats of a work platform relative to a workpiece" was invented by Samuel James Knutson (Charleston, S.C.) and Brian Timothy Peters (Mount Pleasant, S.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system to adjust extension lengths of slats of a work platform relative to a workpiece includes sensors to collect first data associated with a position of an outer surface of the workpiece at a height of the slats. The system includes actuators configured to extend or retract the slats. The system also includes a controller cou...