US Patent Issued to United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force on Nov. 25 for "Stand for holding a workpiece with three-axis adjustability" (Oklahoma Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,479,601, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio).

"Stand for holding a workpiece with three-axis adjustability" was invented by Kimberly Wilkerson (Midwest City, Okla.), Juan Soto (Oklahoma City) and Casey Johnson (Oklahoma City).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A stand for holding an aircraft workpiece during maintenance. The stand has a pair of longitudinally spaced apart uprights, an elongate, longitudinal, vertically placeable spine connecting the pair of uprights, an elongate, transversely oriented, longitudinally placeable spreader dispos...