ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,304,637, issued on May 20, was assigned to Adient Aerospace LLC (Bothell, Wash.).
"Dual operation emergency passage egress system" was invented by Timothy Scotford (Monmouthshire, Great Britain), Paul Morgan (Nantyglo, Great Britain), Robert Raikes (Newport, Great Britain) and Paul Edwards (Nantyglo, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples provide a door assembly including a dual operation slide device for a sliding privacy door associated with a seat unit. The door assembly includes a sliding door movably mounted to a door support member of a seat unit. The door slides laterally between a retracted position and a deployed ...