US Patent Issued to The Boeing on July 29 for "Additively manufactured armor and method for making the same" (Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,332, issued on July 29, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Additively manufactured armor and method for making the same" was invented by Michael D. Nevinsky (Media, Pa.), Antonio Paesano (Wilmington, Del.) and Nilay B. Pandya (Elkton, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is an additively manufactured multi-layered ballistic armor and a method of forming a multi-layered ballistic armor. The multi-layered ballistic armor includes a metal layer and a ceramic layer. The metal layer includes first mechanical interconnection features and a plurality of first pores. The ceramic layer includes second mechanical ...