ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,192, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to THE BOEING COMPANY (Arlington, Va.).
"Systems and methods for shaping a part" was invented by Nicholas Allan Norman (Summerville, S.C.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and devices of shaping a part during a manufacturing process. The devices include a contouring unit that applies a force to one or more contact points of an index section of the part, and a measuring unit that measures a shape of a virtual index section of the part. The methods include applying a force to the index section of the part and shaping the separate the virtual index section of the part. The shaping can shape the vi...