US Patent Issued to The Boeing on March 11 for "Fastener systems and methods for joining multiple substrates of workpiece" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,247,609, issued on March 11, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Fastener systems and methods for joining multiple substrates of workpiece" was invented by Nathan A. Muntz (Everett, Wash.), Farahnaz Sisco (Mukilteo, Wash.) and Blake A. Simpson (Kirkland, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fastener system for joining substrates of a workpiece with working and blind sides includes a nut member, a sleeve member and a bolt member. The nut member includes a nut bore with internal threads. The nut member is placed with the nut bore over a joining bore through the substrates on the blind side. The sleeve member includes an ou...