US Patent Issued to The Boeing on March 18 for "Methods and systems for assembly and installation of airframe crown modules" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,271, issued on March 18, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Chicago).

"Methods and systems for assembly and installation of airframe crown modules" was invented by Daniel R. Smith (Woodinville, Wash.), Darrell D. Jones (Mill Creek, Wash.) and Jeremy Evan Justice (Mill Creek, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for assembling an aircraft. The method includes receiving an upper half barrel section of fuselage that is in a crown up orientation and installing a crown module into the upper half barrel section."

The patent was filed on Nov. 10, 2021, under Application No. 17/454,276.

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