US Patent Issued to The Boeing on March 25 for "Non-destructive inspection station for aircraft fuselage sections fabricated in an assembly line" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,362, issued on March 25, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Chicago).

"Non-destructive inspection station for aircraft fuselage sections fabricated in an assembly line" was invented by Daniel R. Smith (Woodinville, Wash.), Darrell D. Jones (Mill Creek, Wash.), Barry A. Fetzer (Renton, Wash.), Jeremy Evan Justice (Mill Creek, Wash.) and James C. Kennedy (Port Angeles, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for inspecting aircraft fuselages. Non-Destructive Inspection (NDI) stations inspect sections of a fuselage via pulsed-line assembly techniques. After each pulse, a section of fuselage is moved by less t...