US Patent Issued to The Boeing on June 3 for "Zonal lamination for composite parts in a moving line" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,319,015, issued on June 3, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Chicago).

"Zonal lamination for composite parts in a moving line" was invented by Daniel R. Smith (Woodinville, Wash.), Darrell D. Jones (Mill Creek, Wash.), Michael Kenneth-Que Louie (Renton, Wash.), Richard Allen Miller II (Seattle) and Jordan Seth Erickson (Federal Way, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for fabricating composite parts. The method includes subdividing a laminate into zones, laying up tows of fiber reinforced material for the laminate over a layup mandrel via multiple laminations such that each lamination head applies tows in a...