US Patent Issued to The Boeing on July 15 for "Incremental sheet forming systems and methods for forming structures having steep walls" (Australian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,093, issued on July 15, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Chicago).

"Incremental sheet forming systems and methods for forming structures having steep walls" was invented by Michael C. Elford (Springfield, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for forming a structure with steep walls (walls having an angle greater than 60deg with respect to a level plane) through one or more incremental sheet forming operations is provided. The method includes a workpiece with an inner region and an outer region that are separated by a boundary region. The boundary region includes a plurality of openings and a plurality of connec...