US Patent Issued to THE BOEING on June 24 for "Method and apparatus for the application of frame to fuselage pull-up force via fuselage skin waterline tensioning" (South Carolina, Alabama Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,337,996, issued on June 24, was assigned to THE BOEING COMPANY (Arlington, Va.).

"Method and apparatus for the application of frame to fuselage pull-up force via fuselage skin waterline tensioning" was invented by Santiago Mejia (Charleston, S.C.), Patrick James Macko (Charleston, S.C.), Byron James Autry (Charleston, S.C.), Paul Gabriel Werntges (Charleston, S.C.), Larry Scott Smotherman (Owens Cross Roads, Ala.), David Raines (Huntsville, Ala.) and Sara Murphy (Madison, Ala.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device to assemble a skin and a frame of an aircraft fuselage. The device includes first and second brace members that extend alon...