US Patent Issued to The Boeing on Oct. 7 for "Apparatus and method for processing a composite structure" (South Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,447, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Apparatus and method for processing a composite structure" was invented by James R. Kendall (Mount Pleasant, S.C.) and Byron James Autry (Charleston, S.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of processing a composite structure includes a step of positioning a first processing tool of a tooling assembly and a second processing-tool of the tooling assembly from an open position, in which the first processing-tool and the second processing-tool are spaced apart, to a closed position, in which the first processing-tool and the second processing-tool are sealed to...