US Patent Issued to The Boeing on May 13 for "Method and apparatus for inspecting a composite assembly" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,865, issued on May 13, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Method and apparatus for inspecting a composite assembly" was invented by Eileen O. Kutscha (Seattle), Garth T. Irvine (Winnipeg, Canada) and Richard Mark Shead (La Salle, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of inspecting a composite assembly that includes a core coated with resin. Inspecting the composite assembly includes accessing an image of a cross section of the core, the image having a dot matrix data structure with a matrix of intensity values and identifying a subset of the intensity values that describe a distribution of the resin on the cor...