US Patent Issued to THE BOEING on May 13 for "Characterizing soft tissue stress for ameliorating injury in performing a process" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,300,376, issued on May 13, was assigned to THE BOEING COMPANY (Arlington, Va.).

"Characterizing soft tissue stress for ameliorating injury in performing a process" was invented by Liisa Charlie Hammer (Seattle), Karen C. Takatani (Renton, Wash.), Kevin F. Malik (Seattle), Richard J. Gardner (Brier, Wash.) and James D. Cotton (Issaquah, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for obtaining materials science properties of soft tissue for use in a damage model for ameliorating injuries in an individual performing a process are presented. The techniques can include obtaining physical parameters characterizing the soft tissue of the i...