Printing; Paper Products; Packaging; and Related Production Machinery; Aircraft Manufacturing Systems; Robotics; Transport Systems; Machine Tools.

Representative Patents:

11,264,152   Method and apparatus for robotically routing wires on a harness form board
(Assignee: The Boeing Company)

11,101,582   Methods and apparatus for installing sleeve on cable using active dimensional analysis   (Assignee: The Boeing Company)

10,872,514   Safety system for tracking movable objects during vehicle production
(Assignee: The Boeing Company)

7,172,545   Registration of intermittently moved fastener tape with continuously moving web (Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.)

7,891,535   Method of making tailored blanks using linear friction welding (Assignee: The Boeing Company)

10,145,670   Systems and methods for projected grid-based location tracking (Assignee: The Boeing Company)

5,632,072   Method for hydropatterning napped fabric (Assignee: International Paper Company)

5,682,410   Method for determining core flow rate and water temperature/density in boiling water reactor (Assignee: General Electric Company)

5,711,058   Method for manufacturing transducer assembly with curved transducer array (Assignee: General Electric Company)

5,737,379   Reactor core shroud repair using thermally tensioned ring to apply compression across shroud vertical seam weld (Assignee: General Electric Company)

5,876,559   Deinking of impact and non-impact printed paper by an agglomeration process (Assignee: International Paper Company)

5,878,490   Method for connecting piping system components with limited clearance for stud tensioner (Assignee: General Electric Company)

6,017,415   Method for co-pulping waste cellulosic material and wood chips (Assignee: International Paper Company)

6,334,678   Method for applying chemical watermarks on substrate (Assignee: International Paper Company)

6,733,622   Method and apparatus for ultrasonically stomping slider end stops on zipper (Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.)

6,884,208   Method and apparatus for making reclosable bags having slider-actuated string zippers (Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.)

6,973,704   Method and apparatus for positioning sliders for automated slider insertion (Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.)

7,109,433   Method and apparatus for initiating welding arc using chemical spray (Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.)

7,415,810   Methods of manufacturing hooded slider-operated zippered bags (Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.)

7,585,444   Method for reducing camber in coiled plastic ribbon or tape (Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.)

8,202,002   Reclosable vacuum storage bag having flat resealable means (Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.)

9,010,684   Automated inspection of soft-tooled hollow structure (Assignee: The Boeing Company)

9,834,323   Automated scanning systems for non-destructive inspection of curved cylinder-like workpieces (Assignee: The Boeing Company)

10,053,165   Automated maintenance of surface skins using transporter system (Assignee: The Boeing Company)

10,625,427   Method for controlling location of end effector of robot using location alignment feedback (Assignee: The Boeing Company)

11,079,554   Process for polishing end face of gigabit plastic optical fiber (Assignee: The Boeing Company)

Mechanical and Electromechanical Apparatus; Photographic And Fiber Optic Devices; Heating And Cooling Systems; Power Generation Systems; Fuel Systems; Biomechanical Devices; Aircraft Engines; Aircraft Systems, Fluid Systems; Toys and Games; Stage and Lighting Equipment for Architectural, Photographic and Entertainment Uses; Safes; Firearms; Medical Devices.

Representative Patents:

11,427,306   Piezoelectric thrust vector control for dual-mode unmanned aerial vehicle (Assignee: The Boeing Company)

11,347,039   Optical imaging and scanning of holes (Assignee: The Boeing Company)

11,163,067   Interface device and method for retrofitting an airplane with GNSS landing capability (Assignee: The Boeing Company)

5,537,806   Bag sealing apparatus and related method for sealing bags (Assignee: International Paper Company)

5,778,545   Magnetically damped azimuth resolver (Assignee: General Electric Company)

5,852,271   Water exclusion device for underwater thermal processing (Assignee: General Electric Company)

6,190,218   Pump jet with redirected exhaust gas through stator wane for drag reduction (Assignee: Outboard Marine Corporation)

6,780,263   Sealer with continuous motion ultrasonic zipper welding (Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.)

7,461,680   Apparatus for repeatedly advancing fastener tape a predetermined distance (Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.)

8,738,226   Holonomic motion vehicle for travel on non-level surfaces (Assignee: The Boeing Company)

9,650,991   Pivoting ring petal actuation for variable area fan nozzle (Assignee: The Boeing Company)

10,053,269   Multi-functional fiber optic fuel sensor system having a photonic membrane (Assignee: The Boeing Company)

10,634,123   Apparatus and methods for maintenance of wind turbine blades (Assignee: The Boeing Company)

10,652,441   Systems and methods for protecting imaging devices against high-radiant-flux light (Assignee: The Boeing Company)

10,969,367   Automated ultrasonic inspection of elongated composite members using single-pass robotic system (Assignee: The Boeing Company)

11,128,251   Fault-tolerant power system architecture for aircraft electric propulsion (Assignee: The Boeing Company)

5,493,541   Ultrasonic transducer array having laser-drilled vias for electrical connection of electrodes (Assignee: The Boeing Company)

5,668,516   Simplified active shield superconducting magnet assembly for magnetic resonance imaging (Assignee: General Electric Company)

5,701,742   Configured indium gasket for thermal joint in cryocooler (Assignee: General Electric Company)

6,293,836   Water jet propulsion unit with means for varying area of nozzle outlet (Assignee: Bombardier Motor Corporation of America)

6,491,554   Watercraft with steerable planing surface (Assignee: Bombardier Motor Corporation of America)

6,592,721   Apparatus for dewatering a suction papermaking roll (Assignee: International Paper Company)

6,634,384   One-way valve for use with vacuum pump (Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.)

6,812,585   Fuel cutoff system for engine-driven generator (Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.)

6,924,461   Gas diffuser for head tube assembly of welding gun (Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.)

7,025,841   Ultrasonic apparatus with non-rotating horn and rotating anvil for welding plastic parts (Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.)

7,176,404   System for quick disconnect of torch from power and gas supply unit (Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.)

8,746,616   Mid-wing multi-deck airplane (Assignee: The Boeing Company)

9,322,685   Mems-based conformal air speed sensor (Assignee: The Boeing Company)

9,410,659   Automated mobile boom system for crawling robots (Assignee: The Boeing Company)

9,950,813   Non-destructive inspection of airfoil-shaped body using self-propelling articulated robot (Assignee: The Boeing Company)

10,525,638   Heater system for fiber placement machine (Assignee: The Boeing Company)

11,128,086   Apparatus for contact insertion and retention testing (Assignee: The Boeing Company)

9,009,871   Protective headwear (Assignee: Aaron Shasha)

Semiconductors; Thin Films; Photoconductors; Magnetic Media; Ceramics; Amorphous Materials; Alloys; Liquid Crystals, Composites; Paper, Fiber, Laminates, Woven and Nonwoven Fabrics; Polymers; Films; Building Materials.

Representative Patents:

5,403,444   Printable, high-strength, tear-resistant nonwoven material and related method of manufacture (Assignee: International Paper Company)

5,770,273   Plasma coating process for improved bonding of coatings on substrates (Assignee: General Electric Company)

5,792,598   Photographic developing compositions and use thereof in the processing of photographic elements (Assignee: International Paper Company)

5,932,930   Method for fabricating mixed oxide fuel (Assignee: General Electric Company)

5,935,884   Wet-laid nonwoven nylon battery separator material (Assignee: BBA Nonwovens Simpsonville, Inc.)

6,066,379   Repulpable, water repellant paperboard (Assignee: International Paper Company)

6,277,299   High-sensitivity piezocomposite material and ultrasonic transducer made therefrom (Assignee: General Electric Company)

6,497,790   Paperboard of improved smoothiness and bulk (Assignee: International Paper Company)

9,353,480   Sterilizable and printable nonwoven packaging materials (Assignee: Ahlstrom Corporation,)

9,518,160   Graphene-augmented composite materials (Assignee: The Boeing Company)

9,539,798   Verifiable quick patch repair for composite structures (Assignee: The Boeing Company)

9,981,421   Adaptive composite structure using shape memory alloys (Assignee: The Boeing Company)

10,094,794   Characterization of wrinkles and periodic variations in material using infrared thermography (Assignee: The Boeing Company)

10,169,492   Fiber placement optimization for steered-fiber plies (Assignee: The Boeing Company)

10,603,844   Apparatus and methods for injecting filler material into a hole in a composite layer (Assignee: The Boeing Company)

10,710,327   Methods for making composite parts from stacked partially cured sublaminate units (Assignee: The Boeing Company)

10,933,600   Three-dimensional printing of composite repair patches and structures (Assignee: The Boeing Company)

Analog and Digital Signal Processing; IC Circuits; Detection Systems and Sensors; Magnetics; Optoelectronics; Imaging and Display Devices; Medical Diagnostic Equipment; Reprographics, including Facsimile Machines, Printers, Scanners, and Copiers; Communications Technology; Telecommunications and Telemetry Systems; Audio and Video Signal Processing; Aerospace Electronic Systems; Telemedicine, Telehealth and Telecare Medical Systems; Prepaid telephone calling cards; Electrical Power Supplies.

Representative Patents:

6,865,140   Mosaic arrays using micromachined ultrasound transducers (Assignee: General Electric Company)

8,547,225   Systems and methods for remote detection of volcanic plumes using satellite signals (Assignee: The Boeing Company)

8,639,401   Dynamic adaptation of trigger thresholds to manage when data messages are transmitted (Assignee: The Boeing Company)

9,157,827   Tilt electrolyte sensing for battery health management (Assignee: The Boeing Company)

9,438,338   System for bidirectional free-space laser communication of gigabit ethernet telemetry data (Assignee: The Boeing Company)

10,955,547   Combined radar and communications system using common signal waveform (Assignee: The Boeing Company)

10,958,302   Signal cueing using an IIR filter array with inverted state tree (Assignee: The Boeing Company)

11,005,301   System and method for encrypted resonant inductive power transfer (Assignee: The Boeing Company)

11,054,284   Method of ratiometric proximity sensing (Assignee: The Boeing Company)

11,128,212   Current ripple reduction for a direct current source powering an alternating current load (Assignee: The Boeing Company)

11,152,986   Fast spatial search using phased array antennas (Assignee: The Boeing Company)

11,367,201   System and method for continual localization of scanner using non-destructive inspection data (Assignee: The Boeing Company)

11,415,646   Magnetic field visualization using modulation screen and compressive sensing (Assignee: The Boeing Company)

Computer Systems and Hardware; Parallel Processing; Microprocessors; Optical Processors; Neural Networks; Local Area and Wide Area Networks; Smartcards; Computer-Assisted Devices; Computer-Integrated Manufacturing; Speech and Music Processors & Synthesizers.

Representative Patents:

7,898,383   System and method for detecting security violation (Assignee: The Boeing Company)

8,041,946   Data transfer between networks operating at different security levels (Assignee: The Boeing Company)

8,332,504   Method for testing connectivity of software applications hosted on networked computers (Assignee: The Boeing Company)

8,676,403   Four-dimensional guidance of an aircraft (Assignee: The Boeing Company)

9,098,999   Systems and methods for assuring the accuracy of a synthetic runway presentation (Assignee: The Boeing Company)

9,262,933   Lateral avoidance maneuver solver (Assignee: The Boeing Company)

9,586,067   Fire detection and suppression pack for battery-powered personal computing devices (Assignee: The Boeing Company)

10,001,776   Unmanned aerial vehicle flight control system (Assignee: The Boeing Company)

10,102,753   Systems and methods for processing flight information (Assignee: The Boeing Company)

10,486,826   Flight management system having customized performance database (Assignee: The Boeing Company)

11,081,012   Electronic device and method for optimizing vertical profile for cruise phase of flight (Assignee: The Boeing Company)

11,262,764   Computer-implemented method and a system for defining a path for a vehicle within an environment with obstacles (Assignee: The Boeing Company)

Operating Systems; Windowing Functions; Data Storage And Database Management Systems; Encoding And Encryption; Network And Internet Systems; Audio, Video, Speech and Music Processing; Imaging; Graphic Interfaces; Interactive TV; Computerized Translation.

Representative Patents:

5,357,965   Method for controlling adaptive color flow processing using fuzzy logic (Assignee: General Electric Company)

5.535,748   Real-time graphics on cine playback in ultrasound imaging (Assignee: General Electric Company)

5,841,889   Ultrasound image texture control using adaptive speckle control algorithm (Assignee: General Electric Company)

5,964,706   Method and apparatus for pulsed doppler imaging using coded excitation on transmit and pulse compression on receive (Assignee: General Electric Company)

6,050,947   Method and apparatus for harmonic tissue imaging and contrast imaging using coded transmission (Assignee: General Electric Company)

6,126,603   Method and apparatus for segmenting color flow mode data using velocity information in three-dimensional ultrasound imaging (Assignee: General Electric Company)

6,176,828   Method and apparatus for optimal data mapping of power doppler images (Assignee: General Electric Company)

6,373,970   Image registration using Fourier phase matching (Assignee: General Electric Company)

6,417,870   Method and apparatus for simultaneous construction of multiple data objects for image transfer (Assignee: General Electric Company)

8,259,012   Software GNSS receiver for high-altitude spacecraft applications (Assignee: The Boeing Company)

8,782,673   Sharing of first class objects across multiple interpreted programming languages (Assignee: The Boeing Company)

8,798,976   Calculating liquid levels in arbitrarily shaped containment vessels using solid modeling (Assignee: The Boeing Company)

9,047,771   Systems and methods for ground collision avoidance (Assignee: The Boeing Company)

9,073,648   Star tracker rate estimation with kalman filter enhancement (Assignee: The Boeing Company)

9,347,321   Methods for optimized engine balancing based on flight data (Assignee: The Boeing Company)

9,950,805   Aircraft engine fan speed display improvements for enhanced monitoring and thrust setting ability (Assignee: The Boeing Company)

10,184,799   Systems and methods for targeting objects of interest in denied GPS environments (Assignee: The Boeing Company)

10,450,053   Methods using predictive shimming to optimize part-to-part alignment (Assignee: The Boeing Company)

10,451,743   Integrated interface architecture and control logic for enhanced emergency location functionality (Assignee: The Boeing Company)

10,607,409   Synthetic geotagging for computer-generated images (Assignee: The Boeing Company)

10,929,670   Marker-to-model location pairing and registration for augmented reality applications (Assignee: The Boeing Company)

11,203,445   Data- and model-driven inspection of autonomous aircraft using an unmanned aerial vehicle (Assignee: The Boeing Company)

11,257,386   Camera-based angle tracking of swarms for collision avoidance (Assignee: The Boeing Company)

11,268,827   Vertical situation display with interactive speed profile bar (Assignee: The Boeing Company)

Neurological, Brain, Human Developmental, and Genetic Processes, Treatments, and Materials; Pharmaceuticals; Health Care Products; Genetic Mapping; Radioisotope Labeling; C-DNA Cloning; Enzyme and Protein Isolation; Monoclonal Antibodies and Antigens; Agriculture; Fermentation.

Representative Patents:

5,821,220   Method of producing concentrated non-buffered solutions of fibronectin (Assignee: André Beaulieu)

6,251,859   Deepithelialized skin diffusion cell system 

6,528,483   Method of producing concentrated non-buffered solutions of fibronectin (Assignee: André Beaulieu)

7,112,320   Solid wound healing formulations containing fibronectin 

10,092,769   Apparatus for non-invasive therapy of biological tissue using directed magnetic beams (Assignee: Aerotel Ltd.)

PP19,474   Cynodon dactylon plant named ‘Oz-E-Green’