ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,280,864, issued on April 22, was assigned to Adient Aerospace LLC (Bothell, Wash.).
"Door assembly and seat unit" was invented by Timothy Scotford (Monmouthshire, Great Britain), Kyle Bettenhausen (Laguna Hills, Calif.), Paul Morgan (Nantyglo, Great Britain) and Matthew Vu Hoang (Westminster, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A door assembly for a seat unit provided within a vehicle cabin, in particular an aircraft cabin, the door assembly comprising at least a fixed base structure, a door element movably mounted on the base structure and which is movable between a fully retracted position and at least one deployed position, and a doo...