US Patent Issued on Sept. 9 for "Detection system, apparatus, user interface for aircraft galley assets and method thereof" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,936, issued on Sept. 9.

"Detection system, apparatus, user interface for aircraft galley assets and method thereof" was invented by Hendrik J. Volkerink (Palo Alto, Calif.), Ajay Khoche (West San Jose, Calif.), Aaron Storrs (Santa Cruz, Calif.) and Prabhat Verma (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A detection system tracks assets in a galley of an aircraft. A tracked tape node attached to an asset transmits, at a first interval, a beacon including a unique identifier (ID) of the tracked tape node. One of a plurality of tracking tape nodes, each positioned in a different one of a plurality of asset slots of the aircraft g...