US Patent Issued to The Boeing on Oct. 21 for "Methods and systems for inspecting bonded structures" (Washington Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,447,694, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Chicago).

"Methods and systems for inspecting bonded structures" was invented by David W. Arnold (Newcastle, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for inspecting a bonded structure, the bonded structure having a first structural member, a second structural member, and a bondline between the first structural member and the second structural member, includes projecting acoustic waves into the bonded structure at a non-zero angle relative to a normal axis defined by an external surface of the first structural member. The method further includes determining a magnitude of a ...