By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Journal of Engineering — From Alexandria, Virginia, VerticalNews journalists report that a patent by the inventor Gaw, Kevin O. (Tukwila, WA), filed on January 7, 2013, was published online on September 30, 2014.
The patent’s assignee for patent number 8845256 is The Boeing Company (Chicago, IL).
News editors obtained the following quote from the background information supplied by the inventors: “1) Field of the Disclosure
“The disclosure relates generally to threaded fasteners and fastener assemblies, and more particularly, to threaded fasteners and fastener assemblies with discontinuous threadforms.(…)
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