US Patent Issued to The Boeing on Nov. 18 for "Automated fiber placement of plies with staggering" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,472,703, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Chicago).

"Automated fiber placement of plies with staggering" was invented by Joseph G. Kirchhoff (Tukwila, Wash.) and Brice A. Johnson (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, apparatus, system, and computer program product for designing a composite hollow body. A computer system selects ply layers for the hollow composite body. The ply layers comprise courses having course edges. The computer system positions the course edges between the ply layers throughout the hollow composite body to create a staggering of the course edges between the ply layers for a design of t...