ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,431, issued on May 13, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Chicago).
"Automated cavitation processing" was invented by Daniel Gordon Sanders (Cle Elum, Wash.) and Kandaudage Channa Ruwan De Silva (Summerville, S.C.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cavitation peening system is disclosed, including a tank containing a fluid, a carrier, and an array of cavitation nozzles. The carrier is configured to deliver a workpiece to a treatment zone in the tank, and the array of cavitation nozzles are collectively configured to generate a cavitation induced whirlpool in the treatment zone."
The patent was filed on Dec. 2, 2021, under Application No....