By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Defense & Aerospace Week — A patent application by the inventors Wilkerson, Jeffrey Alan (Everett, WA); Southmayd, Randy Allan (Florissant, MO), filed on March 21, 2013, was made available online on October 2, 2014, according to news reporting originating from Washington, D.C., by VerticalNews correspondents.
This patent application is assigned to The Boeing Company.
The following quote was obtained by the news editors from the background information supplied by the inventors: “The present disclosure relates generally to manufacturing and, in particular, to connecting structures to each other. Still more particularly, the present disclosure relates to a method and apparatus for connecting a stack up of structures to each other using a fastener system that includes a nut plate.(…)
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