US Patent Issued to The Boeing on Oct. 7 for "End effector for manufacturing operations in confined spaces" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,392, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Chicago).

"End effector for manufacturing operations in confined spaces" was invented by Harinder Singh Oberoi (Snohomish, Wash.), Kevin Marion Barrick (Kingston, Wash.), Yuanxin Charles Hu (Newcastle, Wash.), Melissa A. Johnson (Puyallup, Wash.) and Laura Carolyn Foster (Brier, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An end effector for confined space manufacturing operations and methods of use are presented. The end effector comprises a pair of kinematic machines connected in series, and an operational head connected to a first platform of a first kinematic machine of the pair of k...