US Patent Issued to The Boeing on Sept. 30 for "Tensioned tooling assembly for a thermoplastic composite stamp forming process, and tensioned tooling system and method of using the same" (South Carolina, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,427,734, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Tensioned tooling assembly for a thermoplastic composite stamp forming process, and tensioned tooling system and method of using the same" was invented by Zachary T. Verran (Ladson, S.C.), Greg M. Reyneke (Everett, Wash.) and Gregory J. Hickman (Ladson, S.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a tensioned tooling assembly for a thermoplastic composite stamp forming process. The tensioned tooling assembly includes a bottom tool having a bottom tool outer flange with a bottom end, a bottom tool outer radius, and a bottom tool outer curved surface. ...