US Patent Issued to The Boeing on June 10 for "Vacuum system for holding or compacting an object" (South Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,325,199, issued on June 10, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Chicago).

"Vacuum system for holding or compacting an object" was invented by Courtney Hund Buley (Mount Pleasant, S.C.) and Luis Velasquez (Charleston, S.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vacuum system and methods of managing an object against a support structure are presented. A vacuum system for at least one of holding or compacting an object is presented. The vacuum system comprises an impermeable layer, a number of pressure inlets extending through the impermeable layer, and a number of valve handles connected to the number of pressure inlets. The number of valve handles ...