US Patent Issued to The Boeing on June 10 for "Natural feature pick and place system for composite materials" (Australian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,344, issued on June 10, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Chicago).

"Natural feature pick and place system for composite materials" was invented by Martin Alexander Szarski (Brighton East, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, apparatus, system, and computer program product for processing a composite ply. An image of the composite ply is received. Natural features in the image of the composite ply are detected. Feature data for the natural features detected in association is saved with a ply identifier for the composite ply in a repository. The feature data is used to position the composite ply during manufacturing of a co...