US Patent Issued to The Boeing on July 22 for "Optimization of cross-sectional profile shapes for manufacture of structural parts" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,324, issued on July 22, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Optimization of cross-sectional profile shapes for manufacture of structural parts" was invented by Eric S Lester Jr. (Edmonds, Wash.), Vivek Mohan (Everett, Wash.), Venkata Narasimha Ravi Udali (Bothell, Wash.), Shobhit Rastogi (Bothell, Wash.), John Gilotti (Bothell, Wash.) and John Henry Moselage III (Granite Falls, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of manufacturing a structural part includes accessing memory storing code for a software tool to determine a template profile for the structural part. The method includes executing the code to cause a...