US Patent Issued to The Boeing on Nov. 11 for "Robotic end effectors for templating fasteners and related systems and methods" (Washington, Montana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,466,086, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Robotic end effectors for templating fasteners and related systems and methods" was invented by Benjamin R. Bruvold (Newcastle, Wash.), Torrin R. Girard (Puyallup, Wash.), Anna J. Rider (Mukilteo, Wash.) and Elizabeth A Black (Helena, Mont.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "End effectors comprise a housing, a positioner, and a translator. The positioner is supported by the housing and is configured to sequentially receive fasteners from a source of fasteners into a receiving position and sequentially move fasteners from the receiving position to a deploying positi...